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We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home country. Without the opportunity to emigrate abroad people choose their educational investment (and hence their skill level) as we might expect, taking into account the utility...
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We examine the phenomenon of forsaken schooling resulting from opportunities abroad. The brain-drain/gain literature takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries. While high-skilled emigration is troubling, even more...
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randomly allocate subjects into a work task paid either by performance or a fixed payment. Stress is measured through self …-reporting and salivary cortisol. The study finds that PRP subjects had significantly higher cortisol levels and self-rated stress …
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employees are perceived as having low (1) leadership, (2) learning capacity, (3) motivation, (4) autonomy and (5) stress … organisation if denied a promotion. Four of these perceptions, namely lower leadership capacities, stress tolerance, abilities to …
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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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The existing burnout literature has predominantly focussed on the determinants of burnout, whereas its consequences for individual careers have received little attention. In this study, we investigate whether recently burned-out individuals and persons with a very high risk of clinical burnout...
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This paper investigates the causal impact of working conditions on mental health in the UK, combining new comprehensive longitudinal data on working conditions from the European Working Condition Survey with microdata from the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (Understanding Society). Our...
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. Previous research from the US argues that alcohol use as a form of "self-medication" may be a natural response to the stress …
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We study the impacts of COVID-19 on domestic violence and family stress. Our empirical analysis relies on a unique … may affect family stress and domestic violence. We find no evidence that changes in work arrangements are related to self …-reported levels of family stress and violence in the home due to confinement, suggesting that remote work on a large scale does not …
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Many working parents struggle to balance the demands of their jobs and family roles. Although we might expect that additional resources would ease work-family constraints, theory and evidence regarding resources have been equivocal. This study uses data on working mothers and fathers - as well...
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