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-the-job-leisure, the higher the levels of stress during their work tasks. A back-of-the-envelope calculation based on time use data over … related to increases in worker stress. In analyzing workers' effort and stress during market work activities we contribute to …
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Using linked employer-employee data for Finland we examine associations between job design and ten measures of worker wellbeing. In accordance with Karasek's (1979) model we find positive correlations between many aspects of worker wellbeing and job control. However, contrary to the model, job...
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Health Survey) including details on work-related stress and the consumption of various medications, including anti … hypothesis: we even find positive links between individual employment protection and some dimensions of stress, and weaker but … previous results, as well as falsification exercises: family stress for instance is not correlated with regional EPL, while …
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teaching stress and career development stress and has reduced passion towards the teaching occupation. We investigate the …
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-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the …
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The ways in which preferences respond to the varying stress of economic environments is a key question for behavioral … economics and public policy. We conducted a laboratory experiment to investigate the effects of stress on financial decision … intelligence tests as cognitive stressors, we find that stress increases subjective discounting rates, has no effect on the degree …
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improve self-control and reduce stress. We conduct the experiment with 139 participants, half of whom receive a four …-related behaviours. We find evidence that mindfulness training reduces perceived stress, but only weak evidence on its impact on …
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relationship between exposure to stress and overall health is shown. Apparently, the increase in mortality can be explained by the … increase in individual stress levels after the economic, cultural and political consequences of reunification. …
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hypothesis that increased stress is one transmission mechanism. Using unique survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we … find performance pay consistently and importantly associates with greater stress even controlling for a long list of … pay and stress. The risk tolerant receiving performance pay suffer less stress than the risk averse. …
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We study how the transparency of welfare systems affects labor market outcomes of unemployed workers in a large-scale field experiment. Our low-cost information intervention uses a personalized online tool that informs benefit recipients about their personal risk of a benefit reduction when not...
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