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Hersch, Joni - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

Workplace sexual harassment is internationally condemned as sex discrimination and a violation of human rights, and more than 75 countries have enacted legislation prohibiting it. Sexual harassment in the workplace increases absenteeism and turnover and lowers workplace productivity and job...

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Wage Inequality and Labor Rights Violations

Marinescu, Ioana E.; Qiu, Yue; Sojourner, Aaron - 2021

Wage inequality does not fully capture differences in job quality. Jobs also differ along other key dimensions, including the prevalence of labor rights violations. We construct novel measures of labor violation rates using data from federal agencies. Within local industries over time, a 10%...

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Intrapreneurship and trust

Elert, Niklas; Stam, Erik; Stenkula, Mikael - 2019

Trust and entrepreneurship are seen as key ingredients of long-term prosperity. However, it is not clear how these two … are related. Part of the confusion can be traced back to the measurement of entrepreneurship, biased towards independent … entrepreneurship (self-employed and new firms), and excluding entrepreneurship within established organizations. We shed new light on …

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Business Disruptions Due to Social Vulnerability and Criminal Activities in Urban Areas

Drydakis, Nick - 2024

This study investigates the relationship between social vulnerability, illegal activities, and location-based business disruptions in Athens, the capital of Greece. The research utilises repeated cross-sectional data from 2008, 2014, and 2023, gathered from areas with high levels of criminal...

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Business Disruptions Due to Social Vulnerability and Criminal Activities in Urban Areas

Drydakis, Nick - 2024

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Mitbestimmung in kulturellen Einrichtungen

Dilger, Alexander - 2022

Die meisten kulturellen Einrichtungen bzw. Betriebe mit künstlerischem Anspruch wie Theater und Orchester werden betrieblich mitbestimmt. Allerdings gelten für sie Einschränkungen als Tendenzbetriebe, insbesondere sollen Nicht-Künstler nicht in künstlerischen Belangen mitbestimmen, weshalb...

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The European Union, Emerging Global Business and Human Rights: Introduction

Nissen, Aleydis - In: Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy, (pp. 1-20). 2022

Emerging and developing states are home to powerful corporations capable of deploying economic activities on a global scale. But such corporations have to date been largely overlooked in the field of business and human rights. Treatment of such corporations has typically been in the context of...

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Minority representation at work

Breuer, Matthias; Cai, Wei; Le, Anthony; Vetter, Felix - 2024

Recent proposals for a more inclusive capitalism call for labor and minority representation in corporate governance. We examine the joint promise of labor and minority representation in the context of German works councils. The councils are a powerful form of labor representation that grants...

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Workplace surveillance, privacy protection, and efficiency wages

Schmitz, Patrick W. - 2005

Consider an employer who wants her employee to work hard. As is well known from the e.ciency wage literature, the employer must pay the (wealth-constrained) employee a positive rent to provide incentives for exerting unobservable e.ort. Alternatively, the employer could make effort observable by...

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Changes in Collective Bargaining in the U.K.

Addison, John T.; Siebert, William Stanley - 2002

Perhaps no other country in recent years has witnessed greater change in its collective bargaining framework than the UK. This paper describes the dramatic developments and their consequences. Like Gaul, it is in three parts. The first part charts the six major pieces of legislation –...

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