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Beyond GDP and Back : What is the Value-Added by Additional Components of Welfare Measurement?
de New (née Kassenboehmer), Sonja C. - 2011
Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...
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Heterogeneity in Union Status and Employee Well-Being
Haile, Getinet A. - 2013
being in a union workplace and having union co-workers affect the job satisfaction of non-union employees negatively. No …
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A Web Survey Analysis of the Subjective Well-Being of Spanish Workers
Guzi, Martin - 2013
demonstrate the role of working conditions in the following three domains: overall life-satisfaction; satisfaction with one's job …; and satisfaction with the combination of family and work. The paper also contributes to the ongoing debate on web survey …
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The Marital Satisfaction of Differently-Aged Couples
Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2017
We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage … older husbands. Marital satisfaction declines with marital duration for both men and women in differently-aged couples … relative to those in similarly-aged couples. These relative declines erase the initial higher levels of marital satisfaction …
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Does Telework Stress Employees Out? A Study on Working at Home and Subjective Well-Being for Wage/Salary Workers
Song, Younghwan - 2018
Using data from the 2010, 2012, and 2013 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Modules, this paper examines how subjective well-being (SWB) varies between working at home and working in the workplace among wage/salary workers. Both OLS and individual fixed-effects models are employed for...
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Does Worker Wellbeing Affect Workplace Performance?
Bryson, Alex - 2015
between the average level of job satisfaction at the workplace and workplace performance. This finding is present in both …
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Workplace Disability : Whose Wellbeing Does it Affect?
Haile, Getinet A. - 2016
The paper examines the link between workplace disability (WD) and job satisfaction (JS) in Britain using linked data …
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Boss Competence and Worker Well-Being
Artz, Benjamin - 2014
Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...
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Does Job Support Make Workers Happy?
Bockerman, Petri - 2017
Using linked employer-employee data for Finland we examine associations between job design and ten measures of worker wellbeing. In accordance with Karasek's (1979) model we find positive correlations between many aspects of worker wellbeing and job control. However, contrary to the model, job...
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Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment
Grout, Paul A.; Schnedler, Wendelin - 2021
How does the environment of an organization influence whether workers voluntarily provide effort? We study the power relationship between a non-profit unit (e.g. university department, NGO, health trust), where workers care about the result of their work, and a bureaucrat, who supplies some...
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