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Worker participation in decision-making, worker sorting, and firm performance
Müller, Steffen; Neuschäffer, Georg - 2020
Worker participation in decision-making is often associated with high-wage and high-productivity firm strategies. Using … further increases after the introduction. Importantly, we corroborate previous studies by showing positive productivity and …
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Does Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally? The Moderating Roles of Age, Gender and Industry
Rycx, Francois - 2015
among youngsters and women. Policies aiming to increase their employability either try to foster their productivity and …/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the misalignment between education-induced productivity gains and … impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using rich Belgian linked employer …
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Harnessing the Hidden Enterprise Culture : Supporting the Formalisation of Off-the-Books Business Start-Ups
Williams, Colin - 2015
PurposeProviding support to off-the-books business start-ups to help them make the transition to legitimacy could be a novel and effective method of creating new legitimate business ventures. The aim of this paper is to advance understanding of why some business start-ups operate off-the-books...
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Re-Theorizing the Informal Economy in Western Nations : Some Lessons From Rural England
Williams, Colin - 2015
For much of the 20th century, the informal economy in advanced western nations was depicted as a leftover from an earlier mode of production and disappearing from view. In recent decades, however, with the recognition that it persists and is even growing, it has been variously re-theorized as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010312
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Intimations of Keith Hart’s ‘Informal Economy’ - In the Work of Henry Mayhew, P T Bauer and Richard Salisbury
Conroy, John D. - 2012
This paper considers the idea of informality in market exchange, as introduced into the economic development literature by Keith Hart in the 1970s. In addition to Hart (1971, 1973) it will discuss three writers who may be considered his intellectual forerunners. Each, to a greater or less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108307
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Rationales for Outsourcing Domestic Services to Off-the-Books Workers
Williams, Colin - 2013
PurposeThis paper evaluates critically the assumption that the main reason for acquiring domestic services from the off-the-books economy is to save money. MethodologyData is reported from an Internet survey of 5,500 people living in households with one or more members in employment in the city...
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Paid Informal Work in Deprived Neighborhoods
Williams, Colin - 2013
In advanced economies, work beyond employment has been viewed very differently depending upon whether it is paid or not. Whilst unpaid work, especially voluntary work, has been perceived as something to be nurtured in order to rebuild trust and reciprocity in communities, paid informal work has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079818
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The Commonality and Character of Off-the-Books Entrepreneurship : A Comparison of Deprived and Affluent Urban Neighbourhoods
Williams, Colin - 2014
To evaluate whether and how the prevalence and nature of off-the-books entrepreneurship varies across deprived and affluent neighborhoods in an advanced economy, face-to-face interviews are here reported conducted with 511 households in English affluent and deprived urban neighborhoods. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063538
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Working from Home, Worker Sorting and Development
Atkin, David; Schoar, Antoinette; Shinde, Sumit - 2023
A growing literature explores the impact of home-based versus office-based work. Differences in productivity may arise … productivity of workers randomly assigned to working from home is 18% lower than those in the office. Two-thirds of the effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343981
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Near-sourcing UK apparel : value chain restructuring, productivity and the informal economy
Hammer, Nikolaus; Plugor, Rékar - In: Industrial relations journal 47 (2016) 5/6, pp. 402-416
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