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Industrial Robots, Workers' Safety, and Health
Gihleb, Rania - 2020
This study explores the relationship between the adoption of industrial robots and workplace injuries using data from the United States (US) and Germany. Our empirical analyses, based on establishment-level data for the US, suggest that a one standard deviation increase in robot exposure reduces...
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Works Councils and Workplace Health Promotion in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2019
From a theoretical viewpoint, there can be market failures resulting in an underprovision of occupational health and safety. Works councils may help mitigate these failures. Using establishment data from Germany, our empirical analysis confirms that the incidence of a works council is...
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Compensating Differentials for Occupational Health and Safety Risks : Implications of Recent Evidence
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip - 2022
The most enduring measure of how individuals make personal decisions affecting their health and safety is the compensating wage differential for job safety risk revealed in the labor market via hedonic equilibrium outcomes. The decisions in turn reveal the value of a statistical life (VSL), the...
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Underpaid or Overpaid? Wage Analysis for Nurses Using Job and Worker Attributes
Hirsch, Barry T.; Schumacher, Edward J. - 2021
conditions than do jobs for other college educated workers. A standard CPS-only wage regression shows a registered nurse (RN …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226787
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Nurses' Labour Supply Elasticities : The Importance of Accounting for Extensive Margins
Broadway, Barbara - 2012
Many countries face a continuing shortage in nurses' labour supply. Previous research suggests that nurses respond only weakly to changes in wages. We estimate a multi-sector model of nursing qualification holders' labour supply in different occupations. A structural approach allows us to model...
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Infections, Accidents and Nursing Overtime in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit : A Bayesian Semiparametric Panel Data Logit Model
Beltempo, Marc - 2020
neonatologists, fellows, residents, nurse practitioners that are observed across units. We model the occurrences of both outcomes …
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Impacts of Unionization on Quality and Productivity : Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Nursing Homes
Sojourner, Aaron - 2019
This paper studies the effects of nursing home unionization on numerous labor, establishment, and consumer outcomes using a regression discontinuity design. We find negative effects of unionization on staffing levels and no decline in care quality, suggesting positive labor productivity effects....
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