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Searching for the EU Social Dialogue Model
Freeman, Richard B. - 2006
The European Union and the United States operate different variants of market capitalism. The EU model uses social dialogue institutions to help determine economic outcomes, particularly in the labor market, whereas the US relies more on market forces. The theory of competitive markets provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466363
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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S
Kapteyn, Arie - 2009
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463404
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Work Environment and "Opt-Out" Rates at Motherhood Across High-Education Career Paths
Herr, Jane Leber - 2009
Using data from the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates and a sample of Harvard alumnae, we study the relationship between work environment and the labor force participation of mothers. We first document a large variation in labor force participation rates across high-education fields....
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Effects of Daily School and Care Disruptions During the COVID-19 Pandemic on Child Mental Health
Gassman-Pines, Anna; Ananat, Elizabeth; Fitz-Henley, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected American children, including disruptions to their care and school settings. Children attending in-person child care or school have contended with unpredictable closures and time in remote school, which in turn is subject to its own types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814434
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The Effects of Job Characteristics on Retirement
Hudomiet, Péter - 2019
, while the fraction working would be 17.2% if none had the option of flexible hours. We further found that job stress …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480277
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Maternal and Fetal Health Effects of Working during Pregnancy
Dave, Dhaval M. - 2019
We provide some of the first empirical evidence of maternal and fetal health effects of working during pregnancy by using a unique dataset from the New Jersey Department of Health that includes information not only on pregnancy and birth outcomes but also on maternal employment. We match the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480287
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Testing, Stress, and Performance : How Students Respond Physiologically to High-Stakes Testing
Heissel, Jennifer A. - 2018
A potential contributor to socioeconomic disparities in academic performance is the difference in the level of stress … experienced by students outside of school. Chronic stress - due to neighborhood violence, poverty, or family instability - can … affect how individuals' bodies respond to stressors in general, including the stress of standardized testing. This, in turn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480956
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Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive?
Kaur, Supreet; Mullainathan, Sendhil; Oh, Suanna; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
. Concerns about money can create mental burdens such as worry, stress, or sadness. These in turn could interfere with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482556
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The Impact of Job Stress on Smoking and Quitting : Evidence from the HRS
Ayyagari, Padmaja - 2009
This paper examines the impact of job-related stress on smoking behavior. We use data from the Health and Retirement … Study to examine how high job stress affects the probability that smokers quit and the number of cigarettes smoked for … also included to control for occupational characteristics other than stress; time dummies control for the secular decline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463417
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Psychiatric Disorders and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from the National Comorbidity Survey - Replication
Chatterji, Pinka - 2008
This paper uses the National Comorbidity Survey - Replication to estimate the effects of recent psychiatric disorder on employment, hours worked, and earnings. We employ methods proposed in Altonji, Elder and Taber (2005) which use selection on observable traits to provide information regarding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464243