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"Fear is the path to the dark side" : electoral results and the workplace safety of immigrants

D'Ambrosio, Anna; Leombruni, Roberto; Razzolini, Tiziano - 2021

Populist parties' propaganda portrays immigrants as a threat to native workers' jobs. When propaganda materializes as an electoral success, it may drive changes in natives' attitudes towards immigrants. As shown experimentally by Bursztyn et al. (2020), electoral results may signal a change in...

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Returning to work from injury : longitudinal evidence on employment and earnings

Crichton, Sarah (contributor); Stillman, Steven (contributor) - 2005

. -- injury ; programm evaluation ; matching ; disability ; New Zealand …

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Subsidizing domestic services as a tool to fight unemployment: effectiveness and hidden costs

Leduc, Elisabeth; Tojerow, Ilan - 2020

deteriorates physical health, thus increasing the worker's probability of claiming disability insurance benefits. …

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Screening disability insurance applications

Jong, Philip R. de (contributor); … - 2006

This paper investigates the effects of 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 … absenteeism and disability insurance applications. This provides evidence both for direct effects of the more intensive screening …

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Repeated job quits : stepping stones or learning about quality?

Gielen, Anne C. (contributor) - 2008

Despite the fact that worker quits are often associated with wage gains and higher overall job satisfaction, many workers quit once again within one or two years after changing jobs initially. Such repeated job quit behavior may arise as a stepping stone to better quality jobs (Burdett, 1978) or...

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Is there a trade-off between job security and wages in Germany and the UK?

Hübler, Dominik (contributor); Hübler, Olaf (contributor) - 2006

This paper looks at the wage effects of perceived and objective insecurity in Germany and the UK using the GSOEP and BHPS panels. The distinction between perceived worry about job loss and economic indicators such as regional unemployment rates and the share of temporary contracts is...

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Disability and work : the role of health shocks and childhood circumstances

Lindeboom, Maarten (contributor); … - 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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Work, jobs and well-being across the millennium

Clark, Andrew E. (contributor) - 2009

This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source of low well-being. Second, job values have remained fairly stable over time, although workers seem...

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Part-time work, gender and job satisfaction : evidence from a developing country

López Bóo, Florencia; Madrigal, Lucia; Pagés, Carmen - 2009

This paper investigates the relationship between part-time work and job satisfaction using a recent household survey from Honduras. In contrast to previous work for developed countries, this paper does not find a preference for part-time work among women. Instead, both women and men tend to...

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Life satisfaction

Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009

We analyze the determinants of global life satisfaction in two countries (The Netherlands and the U.S.), by using both self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. We find global life satisfaction of happiness is well-described by four domains: job or daily activities, social...

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