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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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affects positivity towards life, extraversion, ability to cope with stress, optimism about the future, self-reported health …
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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 …
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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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Increased pressure for labour market flexibility and increasing demand over workers' performance have fostered the idea that working conditions, in most European countries, have progressively deteriorated with adverse effects on psychological well being and mental health. This paper investigates...
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The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored theoretically and empirically. To do this, we apply a utility function that rises with the absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. It is shown that when employees can influence their wages by exerting effort, myopic utility...
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This paper investigates the role of works councils in job satisfaction. Using the recently developed Linked Personnel Panel, we consider both the direct and indirect impact via further training. Basic estimates on an individual level do not reveal clearly direct effects, but on an establishment...
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Empirical analyses using cross-sectional and panel data found significantly higher levels of job satisfaction for self-employed than for employees. We argue that those estimates in previous studies might be biased by neglecting anticipation and adaptation effects. For testing we specify several...
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union membership and job satisfaction in Germany. Cross-sectional analyses reveal a negative correlation, while fixed …
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linked-employer-employee panel data from Germany. We indeed find that the adoption of formal performance appraisals and …
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