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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
48 Thomas K. Bauer
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Overtime Work and Overtime Compensation in Germany
Sharing the available stock of work more fairly is a popular concern in the public policy debate. One policy proposal is to reduce overtime work in order to allow the employment of more people. This ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 1999, 46 (4), 419-436)
J22 J23 J33
46 Ralph Rotte
Michael Vogler
The Effects of Development on Migration: Theoretical Issues and New Empirical Evidence
Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2000, 13(3), 485-508)
F22 O15 O19
44 David N.F. Bell
Robert A. Hart
Overtime Working in an Unregulated Labour Market
Using individual-level data on male non-managerial workers from the 1996 British New Earnings Survey, we estimate overtime hours and average premium pay equations. Among other issues, four broad ...
(published as "Wages, hours, and overtime premia: evidence from the British labor market" in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2003, 56 (3), 470-480)
J33 J38
42 Daniel S. Hamermesh
The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction
The distribution of job satisfaction widened across cohorts of young men in the U.S. between 1978 and 1988, and between 1978 and 1996, in ways correlated with changing wage inequality. Satisfaction ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2001, 36 (1), 1-30)
J28
41 Mike Orszag
Dennis J. Snower
Anatomy of Policy Complementarities
The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the ...
(published in: Swedish Economic Policy Review, 1998, 5(2), 303-343)
E61 E62 H21 H23 H53 H55 H61 I30 J64 J68
40 Stefan M. Golder
Thomas Straubhaar
Empirical Findings on the Swiss Migration Experience
Switzerland has experienced a substantial influx of immigrants over the last 50 years after World War II, which has led Switzerland to have among the highest share of foreigners in population among ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.): European Migration - What Do We Know?, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005)
D33 F22 J24 J31 J61
39 Assar Lindbeck
Dennis J. Snower
Multi-Task Learning and the Reorganization of Work. From Tayloristic to Holistic Organization
The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the shift from a Tayloristic organization of work (characterized by significant ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2000, 18 (3), 353-376)
J23 J24 L23 M12 O33
38 Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger
Peter J. Sloane
Job Satisfaction within the Scottish Academic Profession
This paper considers job satisfaction in the academic labour market drawing upon a particularly detailed data set of 900 academics from five traditional Scottish Universities. Recent studies have ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2000, 47 (3), 273-303)
J44
35 David A. Jaeger
Ann Huff Stevens
Is Job Stability in the United States Falling?
Documenting trends in job stability over the past twenty-five years has become a controversial exercise. The two main sources of information on employer tenure, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 1999, 17 (s4), S1-S28)
J23 J63
34 Patrick A. Puhani
Labour Mobility - An Adjustment Mechanism in Euroland?
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether labour mobility is likely to act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism in the face of asymmetric shocks in Euroland. To this end, we estimate the ...
(published as 'Labour Mobility: An Adjustment Mechanism in Euroland? Empirical Evidence for Western Germany, France and Italy' in: German Economic Review, 2001, 2 (2),127-140)
E66 J61 P52
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