Essays about: "what is wage employment"
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1. Reap What You Sow: How Effort-Reward Reciprocity Impacts the Job Satisfaction of Self-Employment
University essay from Umeå universitet/Sociologiska institutionenAbstract : This study examines how effort-reward reciprocity at work impacts the job satisfaction of the self-employed. The self-employed regularly show higher job satisfaction than the wage-employed. Theories point toward effort-reward reciprocity, the balance between what one gives and what one receives at work, as a predictor of higher job satisfaction. READ MORE
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2. Socio-economic and Demographic Factors associated with Fertility – Southeast and East Asian Evidence
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Over the last three decades, Southeast and East Asian countries have experienced a substantial fertility decline. The socio-economic and demographic determinants appear to be important in explaining the fertility transition experienced in the region. READ MORE
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3. Skill Returns and Labor Market Mismatches - Exploring Workforce Potential in Urban Ghana and Kenya
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : Ghana and Kenya have both made significant efforts to strengthen the skills profile of their young and growing workforces. Raising skill levels and matching workers correctly to jobs is believed to increase productivity and reduce unemployment. READ MORE
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4. Returns to Education in Germany : An updated assessment of the earnings-education relationship
University essay from Jönköping University/IHH, NationalekonomiAbstract : This work aims at answering the following questions: what is the gain in future earnings from spending one more year in schooling? Do all years in education increase one’s wages by the same amount? Will obtaining a diploma positively affect one’s future wage? By running a Mincer equation enhanced with factors such as sector of employment or gender and using the educational attainment of the parents as an instrumental variable on the 2017 wave of the German Socio-economic Panel, I am able to estimate that in Germany, returns to education are around 10%. To circumvent endogeneity and omitted variable bias, 2SLS is favoured against OLS. READ MORE
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5. The Debate of Decent Work in Emerging Economies: Minimum Wage Policy in South Africa.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : There exists considerable debate on the utility of ILO’s decent work agenda and its four pillars of full employment, rights at work, social dialogue, and social protection in the context of emerging economies. Whether these pillars be achieved in unison or if there a need to prioritize a pillar over another and whether the notion as a whole is complementary with other development objectives like economic growth is dependant on how an emerging economy understand the issue at hand, which is itself a function of the historical and socioeconomic context in which the labor markets exists within. READ MORE
