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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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Do Foreign-Owned Firms Provide Better Working Conditions than Their Domestic Counterparts? A Comparative Analysis

Hijzen, Alexander - 2010

This paper analyses to what extent working conditions in foreign-owned firms differ from those in their domestic counterparts. It makes three main contributions. First, we replicate the consensus in the empirical literature by applying a standardised methodology to firm-level data for three...

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Jones, Melanie K. - 2011

This paper uses the fourth European Working Conditions Survey (2005) to address the impact of age on work-related self-reported health outcomes. More specifically, the paper examines whether older workers differ significantly from younger workers regarding their job-related health risk...

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Misery Loves Company : Exogenous Shocks in Retirement Expectations and Social Comparison Effects on Subjective Well-Being

Montizaan, Raymond Michel - 2012

This study investigates the effects of social comparisons accompanying a substantial reform of the Dutch pension system on the job satisfaction of workers who are close to retirement. The reform implies that public sector workers born on January 1, 1950, or later face a substantial reduction in...

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Working Conditions and Job Satisfaction of China's New Generation of Migrant Workers : Evidence from an Inland City

Wang, Huashu - 2013

China is experiencing notable changes in rural-urban migration. Young, more educated migrants with different attitudes towards living and working form an increasing share of the migrant labour force. At the same time, the destinations of migrants are changing as a result of government policies...

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Institutional Arrangements, Employment Performance and the Quality of Work

Eichhorst, Werner - 2009

The observation of highly regulated, but successful economies has given rise to the hypothesis of various viable models of labor market adaptability. The paper presents a quantitative indicator that tries to avoid a simplified flexibility-rigidity dichotomy and provides a detailed picture of the...

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Sweatshop Equilibrium

Chau, Nancy H. - 2009

This paper presents a capability-augmented model of on the job search, in which sweatshop conditions stifle the capability of the working poor to search for a job while on the job. The augmented setting unveils a sweatshop equilibrium in an otherwise archetypal Burdett-Mortensen economy, and...

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Teacher Preferences, Working Conditions, and Compensation Structure

Johnston, Andrew C. - 2020

Improving schools depends on attracting high-caliber teachers and increasing retention, both made possible by appealing to teacher preferences. I deploy a discrete-choice experiment in a setting where teachers have reason to reveal their preferences. There are three main findings: (1) I...

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