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Long-term health effects on the next generation of Ramadan fasting during pregnancy
van Ewijk, Reyn - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
suggests that this may have negative long-term health effects on their offspring. Building upon the work of Almond and Mazumder …’s pregnancy have a poorer general health and are sick more often than people who were not exposed. This effect is especially … pronounced among older people, who, when exposed, also report health problems more often that are indicative of coronary heart …
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Education and health knowledge: evidence from UK compulsory schooling reforms
Johnston, David W.; Lordan, Grace; Shields, Michael A.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 …/92 waves of the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS). Uniquely, the survey asks respondents what they think are the main … causes of ten common health conditions, and we compare these answers to those given by medical professionals to form an index …
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Gender segregation in employment contracts
Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from the ECHPS. Women are over-represented in part-time jobs in all countries considered, but while in northern Europe such allocation roughly reflects women’s preferences and their...
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Are you happy while you work?
Bryson, Alex; MacKerron, George - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
Recent work in psychology and economics has investigated ways in which individuals experience their lives. This literature includes influences on individuals’ momentary happiness. We contribute to this literature using a new data source, Mappiness (www.mappiness.org.uk), which permits...
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How does innovation affect worker well-being?
Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald; Barth, Erling - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
We explore the effects of management innovations on worker well-being using private sector linked employer-employee data for Britain. We find management innovations are associated with lower worker well-being and lower job satisfaction, an effect which becomes more pronounced when we account for...
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Does union membership really reduce job satisfaction?
Bryson, Alex; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Lucifora, Claudio - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
We investigate the effect of union membership on job satisfaction. Whilst it is common to study the effects of union status on satisfaction treating individual membership as given, in this paper, we account for the endogenous selection induced by the sorting of workers into unionised jobs. Using...
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The value of rude health: employees' well being, absence and workplace performance
Marsden, David; Moriconi, Simone - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
This paper brings new evidence on the relationship between employees' well being, sickness absence and four dimensions of workplace performance i.e. productivity, efficiency, quality of service and profitability. It uses a new panel dataset with monthly observations over two years for 48 local...
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Job security and job protection
Clark, Andrew; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
We construct indicators of the perception of job security for various types of jobs in 12 European countries using individual data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). We then consider the relation between reported job security and OECD summary measures of Employment Protection...
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The hidden costs of fixed term contracts: the impact on work accidents
Guadalupe, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
This paper assesses whether there is a systematic difference between the accident rates of fixed term and permanent contract workers that is not just the result of a compositional effect. A pure contractual effect might exist because the short duration of the temporary contract reduces the...
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Do job security guarantees work?
Bryson, Alex; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Lucifora, Claudio - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
We investigate the effect of employer job security guarantees on employee perceptions of job security. Using linked employer-employee data from the 1998 British Workplace Employee Relations Survey, we find job security guarantees reduce employee perceptions of job insecurity. This finding is...
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