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Stressed by your job : what is the role of personnel policy?
Shvartsman, Elena; Beckmann, Michael - 2015 - This version: November 2015
Work-related stress can lead to substantial health problems and thereby result in immense costs for establishments. Therefore, the question as to what extent establishments contribute to their employees’ stress levels is of great importance for firm performance. We investigate the relationship...
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A life-span perspective on life satisfaction
Thieme, Paula; Dittrich, Dennis - 2015
that can be addressed through specific measures and instruments. Life-span theory points to systematic changes as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011299261
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How have employment transitions for older workers in Germany and the UK changed?
Wright, David - 2015
improvement "compared to many nations". A comparison of European, Labour Force Surveys show that Germany has reversed early … the UK would react faster than conservative ones like Germany. A review of changes to pensions and employment policies … suggests the UK puts more emphasis on recruitment of older workers, flexible working and gradual retirement while Germany puts …
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Personality maturation and personality relaxation: differences of the Big Five personality traits in the years around the beginning and ending of working life
Asselmann, Eva; Specht, Jule - 2021
Objective: At work, people are confronted with clear behavioral expectations. In line with the Social Investment Principle, the beginning and ending of working life might thus promote changes in personality traits that are relevant at work (e.g., Conscientiousness). Method: Based on the data...
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Explaining age and gender differences in employment rates : a labor supply side perspective
Humpert, Stephan; Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
This paper takes a labor supply perspective (neoclassical labor supply, job search) to explain the lower employment rates of older workers and women. The basic rationale is that workers choose non-employed if their reservation wages are larger than the offered wages. Whereas the offered wages...
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Occupation, prestige, and voluntary work in retirement : empirical evidence from Germany
Lengfeld, Holger; Ordemann, Jessica - 2014
that they will make a transition into volunteering after retirement. Following social production function theory, we assume …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010415971
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Pension reforms and couples' labour supply decisions
Moghadam, Hamed M.; Puhani, Patrick A.; Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2023
To determine how wives' and husbands' retirement options affect their spouses' (and their own) labour supply decisions, we exploit (early) retirement cutoffs by way of a regression discontinuity design. Several German pension reforms since the early 1990s have gradually raised women's retirement...
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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...
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Revisiting the complementarity between education and training : the role of personality, working tasks and firm effects
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2012
This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between education and training can be attributed to differences in observable characteristics, i.e. to individual, job and firm specific characteristics. The novelty of this paper is to analyze previously unconsidered...
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Task-biased changes of employment and remuneration : the case of occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011
into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s …
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