Socially Useless Jobs
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- Robert Dur & Max van Lent, 2019. "Socially Useless Jobs," Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 58(1), pages 3-16, January.
- Robert Dur & Max van Lent, 2018. "Socially Useless Jobs," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 18-034/VII, Tinbergen Institute.
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Keywords
sin industries; job protection legislation; management quality; job search; job satisfaction; work motivation; labor hoarding; division of labor;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J2 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor
- J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
- J4 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets
- J8 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards
- M5 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HRM-2018-12-10 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LMA-2018-12-10 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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