The toolkit for assessing public sector efficiency offers an important check on how well our taxes are spent. Geraint Johnes Lancaster University explores this topic in his article: 'Evaluating the efficiency of public services'.

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Job search monitoring and benefit sanctions can have both positive and negative effects according to this article: 'The impact of monitoring and sanctioning on unemployment exit and job-finding rates' by Duncan McVicar Queen's University Belfast 🎓.

Featured: Whether and how #PublicServices can be offered by private providers depends on many factors. Panu Poutvaara Universität München and Henrik Jordahl Örebro universitet explain why this is the case in their article: 'Public sector outsourcing'.

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This week's Sunday ☕️read by Douglas Kruse Rutgers University: Does employee ownership improve performance? Employee ownership generally increases firm performance and worker outcomes'. #EmployeeOwnership

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According to recent research 'workers’ effort is quite responsive to short-term variations in earnings'. Tess M. Stafford from UNSW tells you more: 'Do workers work more when earnings are high?'

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Certain conditions must be met for the existence of a works council to have a positive impact on productivity. Olaf Hübler provides an overview of empirical research on this topic: 'Do works councils raise or lower firm productivity?'

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Well-chosen goals - set either by the individual employees themselves or by management - can increase labor productivity. Read this article by Sebastian J. Goerg TU München to learn more: 'Goal setting and worker motivation'. #JobPerformance

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A detailed analysis of the relationship between #presenteeism and #PerformanceAappraisals can be found in IZA discussion paper No. 16883 by Christian Grund and Anna Nießen RWTH Aachen: 'The Use of Performance Appraisals and Employees' Presenteeism Behavior'.

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New Opinion Piece: 'Reducing presenteeism' by Christian Grund and Anna Nießen RWTH Aachen. #Presenteeism is a widespread phenomenon and has a negative impact on company #productivity . Can HR measures such as #PerformanceAppraisals help?

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Featured: Well-designed #PerformanceRelated pay-schemes can increase productivity but may create #stress for the individual: 'Performance-related pay and productivity' by Claudio Lucifora Università Cattolica and Federica Origo UniBg.

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Your Sunday food for thought: 'Can immigrants ever earn as much as native workers?' by Zhen Huang Simon Fraser University and Kathryn H. Anderson Vanderbilt University. #wages #inequality #integration #assimilation #immigration

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Immigrants must be supported in acquiring country-specific capital - especially proficient knowledge of the host language plays an important role. Read: 'Immigrants’ occupational mobility—Down and back up again' by Aslan Zorlu UvA Amsterdam:

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How can policy makers support the transition from a low-paid job to a better job? Claus Schnabel of
FAU Erlangen-Nbg offers some insights in his IZA World of Labor article: 'Low-wage employment' #LowWages #steppingstone

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Recent Research suggests, that companies contribute to the immigrant-native #EarningsGap on several levels. Benoit Dostie HEC Montréal explores this topic in his article: 'Firms, sorting, and the immigrant–native earnings gap'. #migrants #LaborMarketSorting

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Read yesterday's Opinion Piece and want to learn more? 'Immigrant Key Workers: Their Contribution to Europe's COVID-19 Response', IZA DP 16884 by Francesco Fasani at University of Milan and Jacopo Mazza 🇺🇦 Utrecht University.

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New Opinion Piece out today! 'Essential yet vulnerable: Immigrant key workers in the European COVID-19 labor market' by Francesco Fasani at University of Milan and Jacopo Mazza 🇺🇦 Utrecht University. #EssentialWorkers #MigrantWorkers #Covid19

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Featured Article! Immigrants were more frequently affected by #JobLoss loss during #Covid19 - can this imbalance be avoided in further crises? Hugh Cassidy K-State has some suggestions: 'The labor market impact of Covid-19 on immigrants.'

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#JobInsecurity takes its toll on the health of workers as Francis Green IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society points out: 'Health effects of job insecurity'.

Also remember #RanaPlaza , where more than 1000 people died when it collapsed due to structural failure in April 2013.

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Sunday Reading 🩴: How can policymakers stimulate #entrepreneurship in the #TransitionEconomies of #EasternEurope and #CentralAsia ? Hilal Atasoy Rutgers University has some suggestions: 'Latent entrepreneurship in transition economies'.

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#InstitutionalReforms are needed in many post-Soviet #TransitionEcoomies to encourage #entrepreneurship . Ruta Aidis George Mason University tells you more in her article: 'Do institutions matter for entrepreneurial development?' on IZA World of Labor.

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