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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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This paper is a meta-analysis on the relationship between unemployment and health. Our meta-dataset is made up of 327 … estimators. The average effect of unemployment on health is negative, but small in terms of partial correlation coefficient. We … psychological domains of health and that short- and long-term unemployment spells equally affect health. Dealing with endogeneity …
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This paper presents a meta-analysis on the effects of retirement on health. We select academic papers published between … 2000 and 2021 studying the impact of retirement on physical and mental health, self-assessed general health, healthcare … health outcomes. Almost 60% of the observations do not provide statistically significant findings. Using meta …
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Using matched employer-employee level data drawn from the 2004 UK Workplace and Employee Relations Survey, we explore the determinants of a measure of worker commitment and loyalty (CLI) and whether CLI influences workplace performance. Factors influencing employee commitment and loyalty include...
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This study explores the role of salary raises and the perception of employees of these salary raises on employees' intended retention and turnover. By using a unique survey data set from an American university, this study investigates a novel hypothesis that faculty perceptions of salary raises,...
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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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In this paper, I study an employment situation where the employer and the employees cooperate about the implementation of a job satisfaction survey. Cooperation is valuable because it improves the firm's ability to predict employee quits, but it is only an equilibrium outcome because the...
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as a whole, promotees do not exhibit a health improvement after promotion. Instead the data suggest that workers with … good health are more likely to be promoted. In the private sector, we find that job promotion significantly worsens people …
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Using a new German individual data set, we investigate the influence on health with respect to personal traits measured … and emotional stability correlate positively with good health. Job characteristics like activities combined with … necessity of multitasking affect health in the same direction. If employees get help if needed from their colleagues and if they …
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Since the early 1990s many empirical studies have been conducted on the impact of international migration on international trade, predominantly from the host country perspective. Because most studies have adopted broadly the same specification, namely a log-linear gravity model of export and...
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