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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"job quality"”.
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Mental health among young workers, the impact of job quality
… underemployed (e.g. not well-matched to their jobs in terms of skills and / or working hours), and many are stuck in low quality jobs with few opportunities to move up the employment ladder. These difficult working life experiences create a risk that the way young adults experience work in …
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Job Quality: The Perceptions and Strategies of New Zealand Workers
… on international definitions and theories of job quality, this thesis examined how workers in New Zealand perceive their job quality and the strategies that more vulnerable workers used, and are using, to transition out of jobs of inferior quality. The thesis employed a sequential mixed-method …
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Scope and limitations of a capability-based measure of Job Quality in Central America
… the debate on what constitutes a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ job has been dominated by the phenomenon of informality. Indicators like the ‘informal sector size’ or the proportion of workers in ‘informal employment’ give little attention to the intrinsic features of jobs that affect workers’ well-being, thus …
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Gig work in Scotland : an exploratory study of job quality among gig workers in Central Scotland
… However, current presumptions regarding the quality of gig work have been mainly speculative and are not embedded within the experiences of workers (Kalleberg & Dunn, 2017). This study contributes to a growing body of literature regarding job quality and gig work through the exploration of …
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Industrial policy, skill formation, and job quality in the Danish, German and English offshore wind turbine industries
… study of industrial policy, skill formation, and job quality in the offshore wind turbine manufacturing industry in Denmark, Germany and England. It engages with the comparative industrial relations, skill formation, and job quality literature and proposes an alternative analytical and theoretical …
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Industrial policy, skill formation, and job quality in the Danish, German and English offshore wind turbine industries
… study of industrial policy, skill formation, and job quality in the offshore wind turbine manufacturing industry in Denmark, Germany and England. It engages with the comparative industrial relations, skill formation, and job quality literature and proposes an alternative analytical and theoretical …
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Workforce Transition Systems and Job Quality in Times of Occupational Structural Change: the Case of Displaced Manufacturing Workers in 21st Century Germany and the United States.
… change has destroyed millions of manufacturing jobs in advanced capitalist economies. Despite the sizeable impacts of these shifts, we know little about the specific 21st century job quality trajectories of a ‘most vulnerable’ group of displaced manufacturing workers, whose skillsets have been …
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Flexible or Secure Jobs?: Young Workers and Internships in Ireland and Spain
… outcomes, nor did it consider other aspects of job quality outcomes beyond earnings. While adopting a comparative case study design at the sectoral level within five Irish and Spanish ICT firms, this thesis aims to understand how Irish and Spanish ALMP internships facilitate particular job …
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Beyond Wages and Employment: Do Minimum Wages Affect Management Practices?
… the broader spectrum of management practices and job quality. Compensating differentials theory posits that low-wage employers will diminish non-wage amenities to counteract the added labor costs. Conversely, the high-road strategy literature anticipates firms to enhance crucial aspects of job …
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Police officers: Perception of self, occupational role, and occupational events.
… would mediate PTSD symptomology. Neuroticism, job quality and general job satisfaction were the main predictors of stress. Stress levels mediated between 1) job quality and the symptoms of anxious arousal and impaired self-reference; 2) general job satisfaction and the symptoms of defensive …
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THE OCCUPATIONAL INTEGRATION OF MIGRANTS IN WESTERN EUROPE. THE ROLE OF GENDER AND INSTITUTIONS
… and ethnicity penalties in employability and job quality. Meanwhile, the second main analysis investigates the detailed association between institutions and migrant penalty by employing macro policy data alongside a cross-classified multilevel analysis. In accordance with these analyses, the …
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Skill, remuneration, and employment in production and service related work in Canada : a quality assessment
In this study, job structure is assessed in terms of workers' occupational status and mobility. Job quality is accounted for in this process on the basis of workers' perceptions of their skill requirements and job security, and on the basis of their level of intrinsic interest. The findings …
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Social Networks, Social Support and the Working Lives of Self-Employed Young People in Ghana and Nigeria
… between the social ties, social support and the job quality of self-employed youth? What role did the networks of self-employed youth play during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis? These questions are answered with a cross-national comparative mixed-methods approach that involved conducting 57 …
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Professionalization and market closure : the case of plumbing in India
… necessarily imply monopoly benefits and higher job quality for all the members of a given occupational group.
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Does using social networks lead to better job opportunities? : a direct test
Research on the effect of social networks on job search outcomes has provided mixed results. Some studies found that the use of social contacts has positive effects on wages and on the other indicators of job quality while some others found negative effects. Previous studies, however, suffered from …
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Sensor-based organizational design and engineering
… both subjective and objective outcomes (such as job satisfaction, quality of group interaction, stress, productivity, and group performance). We propose the use of static and dynamic simulation models of group behavior captured by sensors, in order to optimize group configurations that maximize …
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Labor Force Participation and Crime among Serious and Violent Former Prisoners
… whether unobserved heterogeneity contributes to jobs programs' weak treatment effects. It uses group-based trajectory modeling and propensity score methods to balance participants and nonparticipants on demographic and criminal risk factors. Lifetime arrest data from administrative records are …
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Flexible Work Arrangements in Greece: Theoretical Perspectives and Evidence from Employers and Employees
… of flexible working by focusing on the job quality of flexible workers and, in doing so, contribute to the growing literature on the impacts of new forms of work. In Chapter 3, the datasets are presented. First, the fourth European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) and the second European …
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Essays on the Economics of Education and Labour
… labour demand to investigate whether the first job destination of graduates from different socio-economic backgrounds is differently affected by the business cycle. We use the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education survey and the Labour Force Survey across the period 2003-12. When the …
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Essays in Applied Labor and Health Economics
… context. It focuses on two main dimensions of job quality: physical security and workers’ perceptions of the meaning of work. The first essay, Silent Alarms: Workplace Injuries Under-Reporting in Italy, investigates the phenomenon of workplace injuries under-reporting using administrative …
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