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provides more workplace health promotion than required by law. This result also holds in a recursive bivariate probit … competition, we find a positive association between works councils and workplace health promotion for the various types of … establishments examined. Finally, we go beyond the mere incidence of workplace health promotion and show that works councils are …
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We analyse the impact of harmonising workplace health and safety laws in Australia on workplace injury and disease by … improving workplace health and safety. Subgroup analysis suggests the high-risk construction industry had a larger and more … achieving reductions in workplace injury and disease due to a higher level of underlying workplace risk and the introduction of …
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minority workers. However, this workplace segregation does not contribute to the aggregate wage gap between ethnic minorities …-setting on the part of employers. The use of job evaluation schemes within the workplace is shown to be associated with a smaller …
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variety, two essential elements of flexibility. Critically, the training associated with workplace flexibility does not simply … workplace flexibility is disproportionately oriented toward employees with a greater formal education. Our results also provide … modest evidence of an age bias of workplace flexibility. However, the link between workplace flexibility and training does …
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This paper examines the effects of working from home on mental health, with particular attention to the role of home environments. Using unique real time survey data from South Korea collected during the COVID-19 pandemic, we find that working from home negatively affects the mental health of...
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This chapter provides a narrative review of the literature relating socioeconomic circumstances early in life to mental health and well-being later in life. It starts by highlighting the various contributions focusing on associations, then moves on to the literature attempting to identify causal...
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This paper examines the effects of working from home on mental health, using unique real time survey data from South Korea collected during the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that working from home negatively affects the mental health of workers in the first half of 2020. Furthermore, we find...
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This paper assesses the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown measures on the mental health of individuals in the UK, starting from the early restrictions in April 2020, and covering three subsequent lockdowns, up until March 2021. It also considers three aspects of mental health; that is 'anxiety and...
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treatment in educational, workplace environments, and/or services (public/health) prompted deteriorated physical and mental …
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We investigate the causal impact of offering telehealth services to female microfinance borrowers on their health and bargaining power in the household. Using a balanced panel of 1218 female borrowers, we observe a positive impact of offering telehealth services on self-reported physical and...
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