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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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Types of institutions and well-being of self-employed and paid employees in Europe

Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael - 2019

This paper analyzes the role of different types of institutions, such as entrepreneurship-facilitating entry conditions, labor market regulations, quality of government, and perception of corruption for individual well-being among self-employed and paid employed individuals. Well-being is...

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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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Worker satisfaction and worker representation : the jury is still out

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2022

This paper investigates the relationship between worker job satisfaction and workplace representation, to include works councils as well as local union agencies. The paper marks a clear shift away from the traditional focus on union membership per se because its sample of EU nations have...

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Boss competence and worker well-being

Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014

Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...

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How common are bad bosses?

Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2018

Bosses play an important role in workplaces. Yet little is currently known about a foundational question. Are the right people promoted to be managers, team leaders, and supervisors? Gallup data and the famous Peter Principle both suggest that incompetent bosses are likely to be all around us....

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Health impaired employees' job satisfaction : new evidence from Athens, Greece

Drydakis, Nick - 2011

By utilizing the 2008 Athens Area Study (AAS) data set, this study investigates four aspects of job satisfaction - total pay, promotion prospects, respect received from one's supervisor, and total job satisfaction - between healthy and heath-impaired employees. Health impaired employees are...

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Excess commuting in the US : differences between the self-employed and employees

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2015

In this paper, we propose a new spatial framework to model excess commuting of workers and we show empirical differences between the self-employed and employees in the US. In a theoretical framework where self-employed workers minimize their commuting time, employees do not minimize their...

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Examining the relationship between employee resistance to changes in job conditions and wider organisational change : evidence from Ireland

Cronin, Hugh; McGuinness, Séamus - 2014

implementation of firm-level policies aimed at increasing competitiveness and workforce flexibility. Key finding arising from the … research is that while workforce resistance to job-related change often forces firms to seek alternative means of achieving … incidence of workforce resistance to changes in job conditions. …

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