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Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency : The Case of Job Satisfaction

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2011

We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...

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Explaining Differences in Job Search Outcomes between Employed and Unemployed Job Seekers

Longhi, Simonetta - 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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Total Reward in the UK in the Public and Private Sectors

Danzer, Alexander M. - 2011

Recent controversy has surrounded the relative value of public and private sector remuneration. We define a comprehensive measure of Total Reward (TR) which includes not just pay, but pensions and other 'benefits in kind', evaluate it as the present value of the sum of all these payments over...

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The Role of Parental Income Over the Life Cycle : A Comparison of Sweden and the UK

Bjorklund, Anders - 2012

Research on intergenerational income mobility has shown stronger persistence between parental and offspring's income in … association between parental income and these outcomes, and the associations are stronger in the UK than in Sweden.Therefore, we … weight and height are too weak to account for hardly any fraction of the UK-Sweden difference in intergenerational income …

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Testing the Tunnel Effect : Comparison, Age and Happiness in UK and German Panels

Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2013

In contrast to previous results combining all ages we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the … income effects. In GSOEP they cancel to give no effect of effect of comparison income on life satisfaction in the whole …-happiness relationship is hump-shaped in all three countries. Results are consistent with a simple life cycle model of relative income under …

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The Extent of Collective Bargaining and Workplace Representation : Transitions between States and Their Determinants - A Comparative Analysis of Germany and Great Britain

Addison, John T. - 2009

Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said, comparatively little is known in any detail of the changing pattern of the institutions of collective bargaining and worker representation in Germany and still less in both countries...

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The Life-Cycle and the Business-Cycle of Wage Risk : A Cross-Country Comparison

Bayer, Christian - 2009

This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First, we find that household characteristics explain about...

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Low Pay Persistence in European Countries

Clark, Kenneth - 2009

Using panel data for twelve European countries over the period 1994-2001 we estimate the extent of state dependence in low pay. Controlling for observable and unobservable heterogeneity as well as the endogeneity of initial conditions we find positive, statistically significant state dependence...

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Self-Selection into Export Markets by Business Services Firms : Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Temouri, Yama - 2010

This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export, comparing exporters to firms that serve the national market only. We estimate identically specified empirical models using comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany,...

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Slip Sliding Away : Further Union Decline in Germany and Britain

Addison, John T. - 2010

This paper presents the first comparative analysis of the decline in collective bargaining in two European countries where that decline has been most pronounced. Using workplace-level data and a common model, we present decompositions of changes in collective bargaining and worker representation...

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