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Innovative Work Practices and Sickness Absence: What Does a Nationally Representative Employee Survey Tell?

Böckerman, Petri; Johansson, Edvard; Kauhanen, Antti - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The paper examines the effect of innovative work practices on the prevalence of sickness absence and accidents at work. We focus on several different aspects of workplace innovations (self-managed teams, information sharing, employer-provided training and incentive pay) along with the...

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Top income shares and mortality: Evidence from advanced countries

Böckerman, Petri - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The paper examines the effect of top income shares on the crude death and infant mortality rates. We use balanced panel data that covers nine advanced countries over the period 1952-1998. Top income shares are measured as the shares of pre-tax income going to the richest 0.1%, 1% and 10% of the...

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Sources of job and worker flows: Evidence from a panel of regions

Böckerman, Petri; Hämäläinen, Kari; Maliranta, Mika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

The aim of this study is to explore the structure and the dynamics of regional labour markets in terms of gross job and worker flows. The regional turnover rates are related to macroeconomic factors, industry-structure and demographic factors by employing the data of 85 Finnish regions over the...

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Does high involvement management improve worker wellbeing?

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Employees exposed to high involvement management (HIM) practices have higher subjective wellbeing, fewer accidents but more short absence spells than “like” employees not exposed to HIM. These results are robust to extensive work, wage and sickness absence history controls. We present a...

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Economic Inequality and Health: Looking Beyond Aggregate Indicators

Böckerman, Petri; Johansson, Edvard; Helakorpi, Satu; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper examines the relationship between relative income inequality and health in Finland, using individual … microdata over the period 1993-2005. Our data allows us to analyse a large spectrum of health indicators. Overall, our results … negatively related to the probability of good physical health and no disability retirement. For men, relative income inequality …

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Unemployment and self-assessed health: Evidence from panel data

Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We analyse the relationship between unemployment and self-assessed health using the European Community Household Panel … such for self-assessed health. The health status of those that end up being unemployed is lower than that of the … continually employed. Hence, persons who have poor health are being selected for the pool of the unemployed. This explains why, in …

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