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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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Has the Economic Crisis Worsened the Work-Related Stress and Mental Health of Temporary Workers in Spain?
Bartoll, Xavier - 2018
This paper analyses the causal effects of temporary employment on work-related stress and mental health before (2006 …-related stress in the pre-crisis period, but not for women. The stratification analysis shows lower work-related stress levels among … crisis is responsible for increasing stress only among older temporary workers and male university graduates, without …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912757
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Psychological Resilience to Major Socioeconomic Life Events
Etile, Fabrice - 2020
Understanding who in the population is psychologically resilient in the face of major life events, and who is not, is important for policies that target reductions in disadvantage. In this paper we construct a measure of adult resilience, document its distribution, and test its predictability by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838484
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Climate Vulnerability, Communities' Resilience and Child Labour
Boutin, Delphine - 2014
This article clarifies and quantifies the causal impact of climate change vulnerability on child labour incidence and intensity. For this purpose, we create an index of vulnerability to climate change, composed of biophysical vulnerability and communities' resilience. Both, participation to...
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The First Wave of the Covid-19 Pandemic and its Impact on Socioeconomic Inequality in Psychological Distress in the UK
Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew - 2021
We use data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) to compare measures of socioeconomic inequality in psychological distress, measured by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), before (Waves 9 and the Interim 2019 Wave) and during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (April to July...
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Hearing Loss and Disability Exit : Measurement Issues and Coping Strategies
Christensen, Vibeke T.; Datta Gupta, Nabanita; … - 2021
Using unique representative data containing self-reported functional and clinically measured hearing ability for the Danish population aged 50-64, we estimate the effect of hearing loss on receipt of disability benefits accounting for potential endogeneity of functional hearing. Our...
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Financial Stress, Family Conflict, and Youths' Successful Transition to Adult Roles
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011
We analyze the effect of mothers' and youths' reports of family financial stress and conflict on youths' transitions … associated with youth making later transitions. Overall, financial stress and conflict have independent effects on youths …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134078
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122972
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Extra Status and Extra Stress : Are Promotions Good for Us?
Johnston, David W. - 2012
stress, income and hours worked. However, despite these large effects on job attributes, we find that promotions have … deterioration two years after receiving a promotion. Thus, it seems the additional stress involved with promotions eventually …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104076
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Gender Differences in Performance in Competitive Environments : Evidence from Professional Tennis Players
Paserman, M. Daniele - 2007
This paper uses data from nine tennis Grand Slam tournaments played between 2005 and 2007 to assess whether men and women respond differently to competitive pressure in a setting with large monetary rewards. In particular, it asks whether the quality of the game deteriorates as the stakes become...
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