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The paper uses data from the International Social Surveys Program (ISSP) to investigate work-related stress among a … group of 15 OECD countries. It examines the determinants of work-related stress and explores the importance of work …-related stress as a predictor of individuals' quitting behaviour and the rate of absenteeism. We find that those individuals …
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The existing burnout literature has predominantly focussed on the determinants of burnout, whereas its consequences for … persons with a very high risk of clinical burnout differ in job preferences from non-burned-out workers. Moreover, we link … current risk of burnout judged fictitious job offers with experimentally manipulated characteristics in terms of their …
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Recent studies have explored hiring discrimination as an obstacle to former burnout patients. Many workers, however …, return to the same employer, where they face an even more severe aftermath of burnout syndrome: promotion discrimination. To … experiment with 406 genuine managers, testing the potential of the main burnout stigma theoretically described in the literature …
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. Evidence from the European countries shows that widows feel less time stress than married women but are also less satisfied … reduces their feelings of time pressure. U.S. longitudinal data demonstrate that it increases feelings of depression. Most of … time pressure and of depression persist much longer. …
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Following the arrival of the first child, women's absence rates soar and become less predictable due to the greater frequency of their own sickness and the need to care for sick children. In this paper, we argue that this fall in presenteeism in the workplace hurts women's wages, not only...
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This study charts the differences between the sickness absence of immigrants and Swedes during a period when a flourishing labour market in the beginning of the 1990s turned into a tense and problematic one. We consider not only human capital factors for various immigrant groups and natives, but...
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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 to screen applications more intense. The...
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In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the personnel dataset of a large Italian bank, we show that the probability of an absence due to illness increases for females, relative to males, approximately 28 days after a...
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We shed new light on the effects of having children on hourly wages by exploiting access to data on the entire population of employed same-sex twins in Denmark. Our second contribution is the use of administrative data on absenteeism; the amount of hours off due to holidays and sickness. Our...
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This paper engages in an interdisciplinary survey of the current state of knowledge related to the theory, determinants and consequences of occupational safety and health (OSH). First, it synthesizes the available theoretical frameworks used by economists and psychologists to understand the...
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