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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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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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teaching stress and career development stress and has reduced passion towards the teaching occupation. We investigate the …
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We investigate the impact of new work practices and information and communication technologies (ICT) on working conditions in France. We use a unique French dataset providing information on individual workers for the year 1998. New work practices include the use of quality norms, job rotation,...
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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 …
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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 …
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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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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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effect of SWB varies by types of homeworking.In comparison with working in the workplace, telework increases stress in both …
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status mothers. We propose a novel stress protocol that aims to mimic everyday stressors experienced by this population …, involving time and financial pressure. We evaluate the impact of stress on immediate and planned food choices, comparing a group … exposed to our stress protocol relative to a control group. Immediate consumption is measured with in-laboratory consumption …
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