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Employee involvement, technology and job tasks

Green, Francis - 2009

Using new job requirements data for Britain I show that there has been a rise in various forms of communication tasks: influencing and literacy tasks have grown especially fast, as have self-planning tasks. External communication tasks, and numerical tasks have also become more important, but...

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The Habit of a Lifetime? Japanese and British University Students' Attitudes to Lifelong Employment

Matanle, Peter - 2012

This article presents an analysis from a social constructionist perspective of data collected from British and Japanese university students on the desirability of lifetime employment at a single organization. The article emphasizes two related processes and in so doing helps to account for the...

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Employee involvement, technology and job tasks

Green, Francis - 2009

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Gender and the Consulting Academic Economist

Del Rossi, Alison F. - 2020

We surveyed academic economists on their experiences and perceptions of legal consulting. Nearly two-thirds have … consulting experience and 40 percent have consulted within the last five years. Base hourly rates average $244, with a median of …

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Do consulting services affect audit quality? Evidence from the workforce

Fedyk, Anastassia; Fedyk, Tatiana; Hodson, James; … - 2023

This paper investigates how consulting services affect audit quality, from the perspective of knowledge and expertise … employees at large U.S. public accounting firms, we document a positive effect of consulting employees on audit quality …. Specifically, a one-standard-deviation increase in the share of consulting employees in an office results in a 2.7 percentage point …

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Employed and unemployed job seekers: Are they substitutes?

Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - 2010

The job search literature suggests that an increase in the proportion of job seekers who are employed reduces the probability of unemployed people finding a job. However, there is little evidence indicating that employed and unemployed job seekers have similar observed characteristics or that...

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Explaining differences in job search outcomes between employed and unemployed job seekers

Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - 2011

We use individual data for Great Britain over the period 1992-2009 to compare the probability that employed and unemployed job seekers find a job, and the quality of the job they find. The job finding rate of unemployed job seekers is 50 percent higher than that of employed job seekers, and this...

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Differences in employment histories between employed and unemployed job seekers

Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - 2010

We use the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) to analyse whether employed and unemployed job seekers are substitutes by comparing their individual characteristics and past (un)employment and job histories. Since the BHPS does not directly collect information on job search activities of...

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Occupational change and mobility among employed and unemployed job seekers

Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - 2011

We use data from the Labour Force Survey to show that employed and unemployed job seekers in Great Britain originate from different occupations and find jobs in different occupations. We find substantial differences in occupational mobility between job seekers: employed job seekers are most...

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Access to flexible working and informal care

Bryan, Mark L. - 2011

We use matched employer-employee data to explore the relationship between employees' access to flexible working arrangements and the amount of informal care they provide to sick or elderly friends and relatives. Flexitime and the ability to reduce working hours are each associated with about 10%...

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