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This paper shows that labor market institutions are important for the formation of new enterprises. The effects of labor market institutions on entrepreneurship, wage determination, and firm size are analysed analytically and illustrated numerically. The main result is that an increase in union...
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This paper analyses the impact of immigration on the welfare of the native population in an economy that consists of skilled and unskilled workers. Due to unionisation, the wage rate in the market for unskilled labour is above the competitive level. For a given skill endowment of the native...
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This booklet represents the short version of the START-procedure for the risk assessment of mental stress at the work … project aimed at developing strategies which practitioners at company level can use for the assessment of mental stress at …
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In modern era, stress at workplace is a component of employees' and organizations' daily routine. The current research … intends to study the gender differences as far as the ways that stress is witnessed in the workplace is concerned … interpersonal conflicts at workplace to a larger extent; also that both men and women would not be so different on stress that stems …
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Frage, ob ein Zusammenhang zwischen berufsbedingter Pendelmobilität und der subjektiven Wahrnehmung von Stress beobachtet … Pendeldauer und der Partnerschaftsstatus üben keinen signifikanten Einfluss auf die Wahrnehmung von Stress aus, allerdings trägt … commuters' subjective perception of stress. In addition, it is also taken into account how the commuters' gender may influence …
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stress, income and hours worked. However, despite these large effects on job attributes, we find that promotions have … deterioration two years after receiving a promotion. Thus, it seems the additional stress involved with promotions eventually …
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To identify molecular mechanisms by which early life social conditions might influence adult risk of disease in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), we analyze changes in basal leukocyte gene expression profiles in 4-month-old animals reared under adverse social conditions. Compared to the basal...
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Stress is ubiquitous in society. In our model, stressors translate into subjective stress via an appraisal process …. Stress reduces instantaneous utility of an individual directly and via a cognitive load argument. Coping can be functional …
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differently to acute stressors. We use two laboratory experiments to investigate whether factors related to stress can help … explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference …
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whether or not economic competitions in the laboratory indeed elicit physiological stress reactions. Our study examined the … subjectively perceived stress and the physiological changes induced by a well-established economic laboratory competition paradigm … subjective and physiological reactions that are indicative of mild stress. Furthermore, reactions that are thought to reflect an …
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