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The effects of status mobility and group identity on trust

Suchon, Rémi; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2019

In a laboratory experiment we test the interaction effects of status and group identity on interpersonal trust. Natural … the disadvantaged group that nevertheless achieve the status of expert) trust less both in-group and out-group trustees … interacting with promoted individuals impacts trust or trustworthiness. …

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The formation of prosociality : causal evidence on the role of social environment

Kosse, Fabian; Deckers, Thomas; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2016

This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. In a first step, we show that socio-economic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers’ prosocial attitudes are systematically related to...

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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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Trust and workplace performance

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2019

This study explores the relationship between trust and establishment performance. The outcome indicators are management …'s assessment of the economic or financial situation of the workplace and its relative labor productivity. Trust is initially … potential endogeneity of employee trust is taken into account, an improved measure is constructed from the discrepancy or …

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The analysis of human feelings: a practical suggestion for a robustness test

Bloem, Jerey R.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021

stress, societal trust, and other important variables. Yet a key scientific difficulty tends to be downplayed, or even …

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Occupational status and health transitions

Morefield, G. Brant; Ribar, David C.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011

We use longitudinal data from the 1984 through 2007 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine how occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability...

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Occupational status and life satisfaction in the UK : the miserable middle?

Georgellis, Yannis; Clark, Andrew E.; Apergis, Emmanuel; … - 2022

We use British panel data to explore the link between occupational status and life satisfaction. We find puzzling evidence, for men, of a U-shaped relationship in cross-section data: employees in medium-status occupations report lower life satisfaction scores than that of employees in either...

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The role of employees’ age for the relation between job autonomy and sickness absence

Grund, Christian; Rubin, Maike - 2020

We investigate whether job autonomy is associated with employees' sickness absence. We can make use of the representative German Study of Mental Health at Work data. In line with our theoretical considerations, we do find evidence for an inverse relation between employees' job autonomy and days...

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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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Climbing the ladders of job satisfaction and employees' organizational commitment : a semi-nonparametric approach

Vieira, José António Cabral - 2019

Researchers and human resource practitioners are nearly unanimous that satisfied and committed employees can play a major positive role in business performance. There is, however, a need for further evidence on what determines satisfaction at the workplace and how it can be promoted. In other...

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