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Job Anxiety, Work-Related Psychological Illness and Workplace Performance

Jones, Melanie K. - 2011

This paper uses matched employee-employer data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) 2004 to examine the determinants of employee job anxiety and work-related psychological illness. Job anxiety is found to be strongly related to the demands of the job as measured by...

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The Economics of Prozac : Do Employees Really Gain from Strong Employment Protection?

Wasmer, Etienne - 2021

Health Survey) including details on work-related stress and the consumption of various medications, including anti … hypothesis: we even find positive links between individual employment protection and some dimensions of stress, and weaker but … previous results, as well as falsification exercises: family stress for instance is not correlated with regional EPL, while …

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How the Covid-19 Pandemic Affects Job Stress of Rural Teachers

Li, Haizheng; Liu, Qinyi; Ma, Mingyu - 2021

teaching stress and career development stress and has reduced passion towards the teaching occupation. We investigate the …

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Pacts for Employment and Competitiveness as a Role Model? Their Effects on Firm Performance

Addison, John T. - 2015

Pacts for employment and competitiveness are an integral component of the ongoing process of decentralization of collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is known about the effects of pacts on firm performance....

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How Representative are Social Partners in Europe? The Role of Dissimilarity

Martínez-Matute, Marta; Martins, Pedro S. - 2022

Social partners (trade unions and employers' associations) and their representativeness can shape labour institutions and economic and social outcomes in many countries. In this paper, we argue that, when examining social partners' representativeness, it is important to consider both affiliation...

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Migrating Workers and Jobs : A Challenge to the European Social Model?

Heitmueller, Axel; Commander, Simon John; Tyson, Laura … - 2006

This paper proceeds from two key assumptions. The first is that European countries are likely to face increased immigration of individuals. The second is that the emigration of jobs from Europe to other regions of the world through offshoring is also likely to increase. It has been widely argued...

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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S

Kapteyn, Arie - 2009

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do? A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different groups...

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Working Conditions on Digital Labour Platforms : Evidence from a Leading Labour Supply Economy

Aleksynska, Mariya - 2019

Online labour platforms matching labour supply and demand are profoundly modifying the world of work. Businesses use them to outsource tasks to a world-wide pool of workers; while workers can access work opportunities transcending national boundaries. Increasingly, workers are located in...

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Temporary Agency Work and the Great Recession

Baumgarten, Daniel - 2016

We investigate with German data how the use of temporary agency work has helped establishments to manage the economic and financial crisis in 2008/09. We examine the (regular) workforce development, use of short-time work, and business performance of establishments that made differential use of...

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What Do Workers Want? The Shortfall in Employee Participation at the European Workplace

Addison, John T. - 2018

A shortfall in employee voice attendant upon union decline has long been forewarned. Data from the third European Company Survey is used to establish perceived shortfalls in employee involvement based on the responses of employee representatives in establishments where formal workplace employee...

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