Abstract In October 2020, President Donald Trump sought to convert many US federal civil
servants to at‐will employees by executive order. Trump's initiative, referred to as Schedule …

This paper engages in an interdisciplinary survey of the current state of knowledge related to
the theory, determinants and consequences of occupational safety and health (OSH). It first …

Research summary: This study examines whether companies employ corporate social
responsibility (CSR) to improve employee engagement and mitigate adverse behavior at the …

Most labor economics textbooks pay little attention to actual labor markets, taking as
reference a perfectly competitive market in which losing a job is not a big deal. The …

Most of the recent literature on the effects of labor market institutions on wages and
employment draws on reforms used as natural experiments. This is a significant …

France and Spain have similar labour market institutions and their unemployment rates were
both around 8% just before the Great Recession but subsequently that rate has increased to …

We examine the effect of dismissal regulation on productivity in the OECD, using annual
cross-country aggregate data on the stringency of employment protection legislation and …

This paper provides an analytical framework and uses data from the US and Germany to test
for the existence of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sick leave …

This article exploits highly detailed data on teacher absences from a large urban school
district in the northern United States to shed light on the determinants and effects of teacher …

Temporary contracts provide employers with a tool to screen potential new employees and
have been shown to provide “stepping stones” into permanent employment for workers. For …