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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 …
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Maternal Stress and Offspring Lifelong Labor Market Outcomes
Atella, Vincenzo; Di Porto, Edoardo; Kopinska, Joanna; … - 2021
This paper examines the effects of in-utero exposure to stress on lifelong labor market outcomes. We exploit a unique … about war casualties and Nazi raids across space (Municipality) and time. We find that prenatal stress exposure leads to … further show that workers exposed to in-utero stress face larger earnings reductions after job loss due to mass layoffs. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315275
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Job Satisfaction and Work-Life Balance : Differences between Homework and Work at the Workplace of the Company
Bellmann, Lutz - 2020
Working remotely can complement and sometimes completely substitute conventional work at the workplace of the company. Until the COVID-19 crisis the share of remote workers was relatively low and empirical investigations show inconsistent results. The recent work has highlighted a dramatic shift...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827357
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045042
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250250
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316673
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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 …
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