Abstract A recent reform in the Italian labour market has modified permanent contract by reducing firing costs. Using a discontinuity application of reform, we evaluate its effect on probability being still employed about three and half years later. In contrast with theoretical predictions, find that job survival is not smaller for treated even significantly larger some cases. We investigate co...

Returning to the community after being incarcerated brings many challenges. In Victoria, Australia, a government-funded contract with non-government organisations (NGOs) allocates reintegration workers assist post-release social integration process. 2020, we interviewed explore how they performed their roles before and during COVID-19 restrictions. The key finding was that building rapport tail...

The Department of Population and Civil Registration Asahan Regency provides a freelance daily worker contract extension (THL) which is carried out once year. Previously, the labor process was by head personnel sub-section directly in field then proposed to Regional Personnel Agency (BKD) for approval. Then BKD Office gave letter be distributed workers who deserved extended through civil service...

Abstract In this article, we examine the extent to which typical workers act in solidarity with atypical workers. We collected unique survey data from United Auto Workers striking against General Motors 2019 during strike and after ratification vote. Although was generally high, do find that longer tenure exhibit less they are more prone be on due material reasons. second survey, had voted prop...

This research discusses the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on female workers economy in Serang City. The has affected various areas of people's life, including economy. On other hand, are among those by Covid-19. theory used this study is Cohen economic which includes income, activity, expenditure. method qualitative with a descriptive approach. Data collection techniques using observation, i...

In both the U.S. and the OECD, highand low-paying occupations expanded relative to middle-wage occupations during the 1990s and 2000s. We explore changes in the age structure of occupations as a means to analyze the reallocation of workers from middleskill occupations towards the tails of the distribution. We posit that occupations typically expand by hiring young workers and contract by curtai...

Since workforces are ageing throughout Europe, interest in the role of age in the workplace is increasing. Older workers with high work centrality are more likely to negotiate a relational contract and express higher levels of job satisfaction than older workers with low work centrality (Armstrong-Stassen and Schlosser, 2008). This study examines the role of work centrality and valued work outc...

We study a labour market in which ...rms can observe workers’ output but not their e¤ort, and in which a worker’s productivity in a given ...rm depends on a worker-...rm speci...c component, unobservable for the ...rm. Firms o¤er wage contracts that optimally trade o¤ effort and wage costs. As a result, employed workers enjoy rents, which in turn create unemployment. We show that the incentive ...