For Better or for Worse? An Analysis of how Flexible Working Practices Influence Employees' Perceptions of Job Quality [PDF]
, 2008 This paper is concerned with examining the relationship between flexible working practices and employee perceptions of job quality. In recent years a growing number of employers in the UK have introduced flexible working options for employees in ...
Clare Kelliher +3 more
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Effects of Argentine Students’ Support Program on Labor Transitions and Job Quality of Young People
Ensayos de Economía, 2019 The deficits in the quality of employment in Argentina are particularly high among young people. To address this problem, the program PROGRESAR was created in January 2014 to encourage the educational completion of this group in order to improve their ...
Mónica Jimenez Martinez +1 more
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Open Access Post-prison Employment Quality and Future Criminal Justice Contact
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2020 Several theories linking post-prison employment to recidivism suggest that the quality of employment has a causal effect on future criminal justice contact.
Joe LaBriola
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The Impact of Welfare Conditionality on Experiences of Job Quality
Work, Employment and SocietyThis article contributes to emerging debates about how behavioural conditionality within welfare systems influences job quality. Drawing upon analysis of unique data from three waves of qualitative longitudinal interviews with 46 UK social security ...
Katy Jones, Sharon Wright, Lisa Scullion
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Do Employees Cheer for Private Equity? The Heterogeneous Effects of Buyouts on Job Quality
Management SciencesWe show that private equity leveraged buyouts reduce perceived job quality despite not impacting average base pay. This appears to reflect employees bearing more risk.
W. Gornall +4 more
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Generative AI and jobs : a global analysis of potential effects on job quantity and quality
ILO working papers, 2023 This study assesses the potential global exposure of occupations to Generative AI, particularly GPT-4. It predicts that the overwhelming effect of the technology will be to augment occupations, rather than to automate them.
Paweł Gmyrek +2 more
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Job quality of refugees in Austria: Trade-offs between multiple workplace characteristics
German Journal of Human Resource Management: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung, 2020 Do employers tend to exploit refugees or do they offer them high-quality jobs? This article examines the job quality of refugees from Afghanistan and Syria working in Austria.
R. Ortlieb, Silvana Weiss
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Nurses’ job stress and its impact on quality of life and caring behaviors: a cross-sectional study
BMC Nursing, 2022 Background Nursing is considered a hard job and their work stresses can have negative effects on health and quality of life. The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between job stress with quality of life and care behaviors in nurses ...
Ali-Reza Babapour +2 more
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Degradation mechanism of the von Willebrand factor A2 domain by nattokinase
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Nattokinase, a natto‐derived protease, exhibits potent antithrombotic effects. This study demonstrates that nattokinase directly cleaves the von Willebrand factor (vWF) A2 domain in vitro. Unlike the native regulator ADAMTS13, nattokinase degrades folded vWF independently of shear stress.
Ryuichi Hyakumoto +3 more
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Poor-Quality Employment: Who Is Deprived in Our Labour Markets?
LSE Public Policy ReviewJob quality is becoming a higher policy priority among governments in both developing and advanced economies. In public policy and economics a ‘good’ job tends to mean a well-paid job.
Kirsten Sehnbruch +2 more
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