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Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms’ governance and management. We cover the institution’s history, implementation, and the best available evidence on its economic impacts. We argue that existing quasi-experimental estimates suggest...

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Voice at Work

Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

We estimate the effects of worker voice on job quality and separations. We leverage the 1991 introduction of worker representation on boards of Finnish firms with at least 150 employees. In contrast to exit-voice theory, our difference-in-differences design reveals no effects on voluntary job...

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Will Markets Provide Humane Jobs? A Hypothesis

Nekoei, Arash - 2022

Most of the key amenities of our today jobs did not emerge in private contracts; instead, they appeared in collective agreements and regulations. I argue that understanding this observation can guide the provision of future amenities. I show that markets underprovide an amenity if workers who...

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Picture this : Social Distance and the Mistreatment of Migrant Workers

Barsbai, Toman; Bartoš, Vojtěch; Licuanan, Victoria; … - 2023

employers. Encouraging DWs to show their employers a family photo while providing a small gift when starting employment reduced …

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Trade Liberalization and Working Conditions

Alvarez, Bastien; Orefice, Gianluca; Toubal, Farid - 2025

wages, which may reflect firms' ability to expand employment without raising pay due to labor supply elasticity and …

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Workplace Segregation and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrants

Willis, Sébastien - 2022

and find that a ten-percentage-point increase in the initial conational share lowers employment rates by 3.1 percentage … effect on wages conditional on employment. The employment effect appears to be due to the effect of differences in the …

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Job Location Decisions and the Effect of Children on the Employment Gender Gap

Albanese, Andrea; Nieto Castro, Adrian; Tatsiramos, … - 2022

We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian … show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to …

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The Summer Drop in Female Employment

Price, Brendan M.; Wasserman, Melanie - 2022

employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women … lapses in implicit childcare−provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment aligns … and gender differences within jobs in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Summer childcare constraints may …

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Naturalization and Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2018

Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...

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Institutional Reforms and an Incredible Rise in Old Age Employment

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2019

behind the recent incredible rise in old age employment in Germany …

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