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We use recent matched employer-employee data to directly investigate if white workers have a taste for racial discrimination in Britain. Based on a new structural model with individual and firm heterogeneity, we develop and test two predictions. Firstly, white employees with a taste for...
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In this paper, we directly test Becker’s theory of employee discrimination using matched worker-workplace data from Britain. Based on a structural model with individual and firm heterogeneity, we develop and test two predictions. Firstly, if white employees have a taste for discrimination they...
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of life changes for each age. This single-variable Stress Index is able to explain over 80% of the variation in happiness … over time. Unexpectedly, aggregate ‘positive stress’ (such as marriage rates by age or levels of job promotion) have … greater negative effects on aggregate life satisfaction than negative stress (such as negative financial events or deaths of …
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the department substantially. On the other hand, higher physical and psychological stress and the expereicene of traumatic … accept stress as an acceptable factor in their job description. …
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This paper analyses the effect of gender on reported and perceived levels of stress through examination of both the … physical and psychological indicators. It may be interesting to work with police data due to high stress levels among police … female officers are significantly more likely to report suffering from physical stress indicators than their male …
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This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social capital in reducing the negative externalities associated with stress …, as well as the physical and psychological indicators of stress among police officers. Despite the fact that there is a … large multidisciplinary literature on stress or on social capital, the link between both factors is still underexplored. In …
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