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Job satisfaction and work-life balance: differences between homework and work at the workplace of the company
Bellmann, Lutz; Hübler, Olaf - 2020
Working remotely can complement and sometimes completely substitute conventional work at the workplace of the company. Until the COVID-19 crisis the share of remote workers was relatively low and empirical investigations show inconsistent results. The recent work has highlighted a dramatic shift...
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Unemployment and health : a meta-analysis
Picchio, Matteo; Ubaldi, Michele - 2022
This paper is a meta-analysis on the relationship between unemployment and health. Our meta-dataset is made up of 327 … estimators. The average effect of unemployment on health is negative, but small in terms of partial correlation coefficient. We … psychological domains of health and that short- and long-term unemployment spells equally affect health. Dealing with endogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013286559
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Retirement and health outcomes in a meta-analytical framework
Filomena, Mattia; Picchio, Matteo - 2021
This paper presents a meta-analysis on the effects of retirement on health. We select academic papers published between … 2000 and 2021 studying the impact of retirement on physical and mental health, self-assessed general health, healthcare … health outcomes. Almost 60% of the observations do not provide statistically significant findings. Using meta …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596319
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Do you really want to share everything? : the wellbeing of work-linked couples
Hennecke, Juliane; Hetschko, Clemens - 2021
Work as well as family life are crucial sources of human wellbeing, which however often interfere. This is especially so if partners work in the same occupation or industry. At the same time, being work-linked may benefit their career success. Still, surprisingly little is known about the...
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The effects of work-life benefits on employment outcomes in Canada : a multivariate analysis
Fang, Tony; Lee, Byron; Timming, Andrew R.; Fan, Di - 2019
Using the longitudinal Workplace and Employee Survey of Canada, we examine the association between the provision of work-life benefits and various employment outcomes in the Canadian labour market. Whilst the theory of compensating wage differentials hypothesizes an inevitable trade-off between...
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Working from home, COVID-19 and job satisfaction
Laß, Inga; Vera-Toscano, Esperanza; Wooden, Mark - 2023
This paper examines the impact of the growth in the incidence of working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic on workers' job satisfaction. Using longitudinal data collected in 2019 and 2021 as part of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, fixed-effects models...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014248942
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Early life exposure to the Great Chinese Famine (1959-1961) and the health of older adults in China : a meta-analysis (2008-2023)
Shen, Chi; Chen, Xi - 2024
circumstances on health in old age. In this study, we conducted a meta-analysis to examine the effects of the Great Chinese Famine … (1959-1961) on the health of older adults. We also explored potential mechanisms underlying these effects. The complex … interplay between early life circumstances, multiple health-related sectors, and healthy aging necessitates a comprehensive life …
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Staff engagement, coworkers' complementarity and employee retention : evidence from English NHS hospitals
Moscelli, Giuseppe; Sayli, Melisa; Mello, Marco - 2022
Retention of skilled workers is essential for labour-intensive organisations like hospitals, where an excessive turnover of doctors and nurses can reduce the quality and quantity of services to patients. In the public sector, where salaries are often not negotiable at individual level, workers...
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I can't get no satisfaction : the power of perceived differences in employee retention and turnover
Gevrek, Deniz; Spencer, Marilyn K.; Hudgins, David; … - 2017
This study explores the role of salary raises and the perception of employees of these salary raises on employees' intended retention and turnover. By using a unique survey data set from an American university, this study investigates a novel hypothesis that faculty perceptions of salary raises,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613161
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HPWS in the public sector : are there mutual gains?
White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2018
Few studies investigate the links between high-performance work systems (HPWS) on public sector organizational performance and worker job attitudes. We fill this gap with analyses of these links using linked employer-employee surveys of workplaces in Britain in 2004 and 2011. We find robust...
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