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Work values in Western and Eastern Europe
Torgler, Benno - 2011
The paper reports on work values in Europe. At the country level we find that job satisfaction is related to lower working hours, higher well-being, and a higher GDP per capita. Moving to the micro level, we turn our attention from job satisfaction to analyse empirically work centrality and work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009419750
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The distance between perception and reality in the social domains of life
Lora, Eduardo - 2013
The distance between perception and reality with respect to the social domains of life is often striking. Using survey data collected on Latin American countries, this paper provides an overview of the main empirical findings on the gaps between perception and reality in four social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010244868
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Active labor market policies in a context of high informality : the effect of PAE in Bolivia
Novella, Rafael; Valencia, Horacio - 2019
Information asymmetries and limited skills are two main factors affecting jobseekers’ chances to access quality jobs in developing countries. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a job intermediation and wage subsidy program in Bolivia, a country with one of the highest levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012117509
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Artificial intelligence and worker stress : evidence from Germany
Koch, Michael; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2024
We use individual survey data providing detailed information on stress, technology adoption, and work, worker, and employer characteristics, in combination with recent measures of AI and robot exposure, to investigate how new technologies affect worker stress. We find a persistent negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014575594
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Disability employment quotas : effects of laws and nudges
Duryea, Suzanne; Martínez Alvear, Claudia; Smith, Raimundo - 2024
monthly employer-employee linkages and disability certification records. Our firm-level difference-in-difference results show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014536294
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Living standards of working-age disability benefits recipients in the UK
Cribb, Jonathan; Karjalainen, Heidi; Waters, Tom - 2022
We examine the living standards and health of working-age disabled people and disability benefits recipients over time … in the UK. The UK’s disability benefits system (which is non-means-tested and in which receipt is unrelated to work … status) has gone through a significant transformation since 2013 with the gradual replacement of the disability living …
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On the use of economic theory in the design of accident law
Lando, Henrik Dan - 1998
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The Long-Term Impact of Children's Disabilities on Families
Gunnsteinsson, Snaebjorn; Steingrimsdottir, Herdis - 2019
Childhood disability is a major health shock that affects parents early in their working life. We estimate its impact on … identify the causal effect of childhood disability we use an event study approach, where we control for a rich set of pre … with a disability has strong negative impact on mothers’ earnings. The effect is persistent and the wage penalty appears to …
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Employment and substitution effects of raising the statutory eligibility age in France
Rabaté, Simon; Rochut, Julie - 2017
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What drives prescription opioid abuse? : evidence from migration
Finkelstein, Amy; Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; Williams, Heidi - 2018
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