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Disability and Work: the Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances

Lindeboom, Maarten; Nozal, Ana Llena; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment …

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Determinants of Job Satisfaction across the EU-15: A Comparison of Self-Employed and Paid Employees

Millan, Jose Maria; Hessels, Jolanda; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

See also the publication in Small Business Economics (2013), 40(3), 651-670. Job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel for the EU-15 covering the years 1994-2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction, i.e....

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The Impact of Workplace Conditions on Firm Performance

Buhai, Sebastian; Cottini, Elena; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This paper estimates the impact of work environment health and safety practice on firm performance, and examines which firm-characteristic factors are associated with good work conditions. We use Danish longitudinal register matched employer-employee data, merged with firm business accounts and...

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Where to go? Workers' Reasons to quit and Intra- versus Interindustry Job Mobility

Delfgaauw, Josse - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

This paper employs survey data on the reasons to quit of Dutch job changers who entered or left a public sector job in 2001. We show that workers' reasons to quit their public sector job influence their decision to stay in or leave their industry of employment. A bad experience with, for...

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The Importance of Being in Control of Business: Work Satisfaction of Employers, Own-account Workers and Employees

Hessels, Jolanda; Millán, José María; Román, Concepción - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015

Self-employed workers can be own-account workers who control their own work or employers who not only are their own boss but also direct others (their employees). We expect both types of self-employed, i.e., own-account workers and employers, to enjoy more independence in determining their work...

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The Effect of Job Satisfaction on Job Search: Not just whether, but also where

Delfgaauw, Josse - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

Using survey data of public sector employees in the Netherlands, this paper shows that workers' satisfaction with various job domains not only affects whether but also where workers search for another job. An intuitive pattern emerges. Workers try to leave their current employer when their job...

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The Anatomy of Job Satisfaction and the Role of Contingent Employment Contracts

Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

In this paper I analyse job satisfaction using fixed effect analysis and a multiple equation model. Overall job satisfaction is analysed as an aggregate of satisfaction with several job aspects. I find that overall job satisfaction is mainly determined by satisfaction with job content. All...

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Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency; The Case of Job Satisfaction

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M.S. Van; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...

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Involuntary Absence from an Organizational Point of View

Kok, Jan M.P. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 1997

Involuntary absence is often seen as an exogenous factor, but firms can take actions to reduceit. In this paper the notion that firms, especially SMEs, are faced with a single decisionwhether or not to undertake these actions is questioned. A firm model on involuntary absencemeasures is...

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Screening Disability Insurance Applications

Jong, Philip de; Lindeboom, Maarten; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

intensified screening of disability insurance benefit applications. A large-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch … regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed to screen applications more intense. The … empirical results show that intense screening reduces long-term sickness absenteeism and disability insurance applications. This …

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