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Improving Nurse Retention in the British National Health Service: The Impact of Job Satisfaction on Intentions to Quit

Shields, Michael A.; Ward, Melanie E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

In recent years the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain has experienced an acute shortage of qualified nurses … investigate the determinants of job satisfaction for nurses, and establish the importance of job satisfaction in determining … nurses’ intentions to quit the NHS. We find that nurses who report overall dissatisfaction with their jobs have a 65% higher …

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Does Job Insecurity Deteriorate Health? A Causal Approach for Europe

Caroli, Eve; Godard, Mathilde - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper estimates the causal effect of perceived job insecurity – i.e. the fear of involuntary job loss – on health in a sample of men from 22 European countries. We rely on an original instrumental variable approach based on the idea that workers perceive greater job security in...

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Household Asset Holding Diversification in Australia

Mariotti, Francesco; Mumford, Karen A.; Pena-Boquete, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We explore asset holding diversification by Australian households, in particular, the household asset diversification participation decision (whether or not to diversify at all) is jointly estimated with the decision of how much to diversify. In so doing, recent literature on the modelling of...

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Job Insecurity, Employability, and Health: An Analysis for Germany across Generations

Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In this paper, we use 12 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine the relationship between job insecurity, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life satisfaction and health. They also, however,...

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Job Insecurity and Future Labour Market Outcomes

McGuinness, Seamus; Wooden, Mark; Hahn, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper uses longitudinal survey data to test the degree to which measures of job insecurity are correlated with changes in labour market status. Three major findings are reported. First, the perceived probability of job loss is only weakly related to both exogenous job separations and...

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Boon or Bane? Others' Unemployment, Well-being and Job Insecurity

Clark, Andrew E.; Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a far smaller effect on the unemployed. We use German panel data to reproduce this standard result, but then suggest that the appropriate distinction may not be between employment...

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Overskilling, Job Insecurity and Career Mobility

McGuinness, Seamus Mcguinness; Wooden, Mark Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper uses longitudinal data from Australia to examine the extent to which overskilling - the extent to which work-related skills and abilities are utilized in current employment - is a transitory phenomenon. The results suggest that while overskilled workers are much more likely to want to...

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Job Loss Fears and (Extremist) Party Identification: First Evidence from Panel Data

Geishecker, Ingo; Siedler, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

There is a large body of literature analyzing the relationship between objective economic conditions and voting behavior, but there is very little evidence of how perceived economic insecurity impacts on political preferences. Using seventeen years of household panel data from the German...

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Skilled Labor Supply, IT-Based Technical Change and Job Instability

Behaghel, Luc; Moschion, Julie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We provide empirical evidence on the impact of IT diffusion on the stability of employment relationships. We document the evolution of different components of job instability over a panel of 348 local labor markets in France, from the mid-1970s to the early 2000s. Although workers in more...

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Explaining the Dynamics in Perceptions of Job Insecurity in Russia

Lokshin, Michael; Gimpelson, Vladimir; Oshchepkov, Aleksey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Contrary to the experiences of other countries, perceptions of job insecurity in Russia were not correlated with the rates of unemployment and the business cycle over the last decade. We develop the theoretical framework that predicts that the individual perceptions of job insecurity depend on...

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