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Long Work Hours: Volunteers and Conscripts

Drago, Robert; Wooden, Mark; Black, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Panel data from Australia are used to study the prevalence of work hours mismatch among long hours workers and, more importantly, how that mismatch persists and changes over time, and what factors are associated with these changes. Particular attention is paid to the roles played by household...

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Who Wants Flexibility? Changing Work Hours Preferences and Life Events

Drago, Robert; Wooden, Mark; Black, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We consider desires for flexibility in weekly hours by analyzing changes in work hours preferences using four years of … data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. We control for work hours preferences in … hours preferences. Our findings reveal that, in general, women are more sensitive to life events than men. Women’s preferred …

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China's 2008 Labor Contract Law: Implementation and Implications for China's Workers

Gallagher, Mary; Giles, John T.; Park, Albert; Wang, Meiyan - 2013

This paper presents empirical evidence from household and firm survey data collected during 2009-2010 on the implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The government and local labor bureaus have made substantial efforts to enforce the provisions of the new...

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China's 2008 Labor Contract Law: Implementation and Implications for China's Workers

Gallagher, Mary; Giles, John T.; Park, Albert; Wang, Meiyan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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Hiring Subsidies and Temporary Work Agencies

Bermúdez-Barrezueta, Natalia; Desiere, Sam; Tarullo, Giulia - 2025

This paper evaluates a hiring subsidy for lower-educated youths in Flanders (Belgium) that reduced labour costs by approximately 13% for a period of two years, starting in 2016. Using a donut Regression Discontinuity Design, we find no evidence that the subsidy improved the job finding rate of...

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High-performance management practices and employee outcomes in Denmark

Cristini, Annalisa; Eriksson, Tor; Pozzoli, Dario - 2012

High-performance work practices are frequently considered to have positive effects on corporate performance, but what do they do for employees? After assessing the correlation between organizational innovation and firm performance, this article investigates whether high-involvement work...

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High-Performance Management Practices and Employee Outcomes in Denmark

Cristini, Annalisa; Eriksson, Tor; Pozzoli, Dario - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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The Use of Performance Appraisals and Employees' Presenteeism Behavior

Grund, Christian; Nießen, Anna - 2024

Presenteeism behavior, i.e. working despite illness, is a common phenomenon wordwide and can have severe consequences for employees and firms alike. In this study, we investigate the relation between the use of company performance appraisals and employees' presenteeism behavior. We use...

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Outside Options and Worker Motivation

Ahammer, Alexander; Fahn, Matthias; Stiftinger, Flora - 2023

We study the relationship between outside options and workers' motivation to exert effort. We evaluate changes in outside options arising from age and experience cutoffs in the Austrian unemployment insurance (UI) system, and use absenteeism as a proxy for worker effort. Results indicate that a...

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Why Do Temporary Workers Have Higher Disability Insurance Risks Than Permanent Workers?

Koning, Pierre; Muller, Paul; Prudon, Roger - 2022

Workers with fixed-term contracts typically have worse health than workers with permanent contracts. We show that these differences in health translate into a substantially higher (30%) risk of applying for disability insurance (DI) in the Netherlands. Using unique administrative data on health...

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