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"Fear Is the Path to the Dark Side". Electoral Results and the Workplace Safety of Immigrants
D’Ambrosio, Anna; Leombruni, Roberto; Razzolini, Tiziano - 2021
Populist parties' propaganda portrays immigrants as a threat to native workers' jobs. When propaganda materializes as an electoral success, it may drive changes in natives' attitudes towards immigrants. As shown experimentally by Bursztyn et al. (2020), electoral results may signal a change in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597468
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Returning to work from injury: longitudinal evidence on employment and earnings
Crichton, Sarah; Stillman, Steven; Hyslop, Dean - 2005
New Zealand has a unique accident insurance system that pays the direct costs of all accidental injuries and compensates workers 80% of their earnings for any time post-injury that they are unable to work. Statistics New Zealand's Linked Employer-Employee Database contains monthly information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267498
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Disability and work: the role of health shocks and childhood circumstances
Lindeboom, Maarten; Llena-Nozal, Ana; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2006
This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274395
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Work, risk and health: Differences between immigrants and natives in Spain
Solé, Meritxell; Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodriguez … - 2010
acquiring a disability. We postulate a model in which this impact is mediated by the choice of occupation, with a level of risk … a representative sample of immigrants. We find that risk exposure increases the probability of permanent disability by 5 … both disability and the probability of being employed in a risky occupation. Most groups of immigrants work in riskier jobs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278735
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Subsidizing Domestic Services as a Tool to Fight Unemployment: Effectiveness and Hidden Costs
Leduc, Elisabeth; Tojerow, Ilan - 2020
deteriorates physical health, thus increasing the worker's probability of claiming disability insurance benefits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270222
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Work, Risk and Health: Differences between Immigrants and Natives in Spain
Solé, Meritxell; Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodriguez … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
acquiring a disability. We postulate a model in which this impact is mediated by the choice of occupation, with a level of risk … a representative sample of immigrants. We find that risk exposure increases the probability of permanent disability by 5 … both disability and the probability of being employed in a risky occupation. Most groups of immigrants work in riskier jobs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008742955
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Disability and Work: The Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances
Lindeboom, Maarten; Llena-Nozal, Ana; Klaauw, Bas van der - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822786
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Returning to Work from Injury: Longitudinal Evidence on Employment and Earnings
Crichton, Sarah; Stillman, Steven; Hyslop, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
New Zealand has a unique accident insurance system that pays the direct costs of all accidental injuries and compensates workers 80% of their earnings for any time post-injury that they are unable to work. Statistics New Zealand’s Linked Employer-Employee Database contains monthly information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762103
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Management-employee relations, firm size and job satisfaction
Tansel, Aysit; Gazioglu, Saziye - 2013
This paper investigates the job satisfaction in relation to managerial attitudes towards employees and firm size using the linked employer-employee survey results in Britain. We first investigate the management-employee relationships and the firm size using maximum likelihood probit estimation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293118
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How does subjective well-being evolve with age? A literature review
López Ulloa, Beatriz Fabiola; Møller, Valerie; … - 2013
This literature review provides an overview of the theoretical and empirical research in several disciplines on the relation between ageing and subjective well-being, i.e., how subjective well-being evolves across the lifespan. Because of the different methodologies, data sets and samples used,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293172