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Worker well-being and quit intentions: is measuring job satisfaction enough?
Pelly, Diane - 2022
very narrow conceptualisation of well-being, namely job satisfaction, thus ignoring the documented multidimensionality of … which hedonic (job satisfaction; positive and negative affect) and eudemonic (disengagement; satisfaction of basic … satisfaction on its own. My findings suggest that the standard single-item job satisfaction indicator is probably good enough for …
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The impact of terrorism on well-being : evidence from the Boston Marathon Bombing
Clark, Andrew E.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; Doyle, Orla - 2017
A growing literature concludes that terrorism impacts the economy, yet less is known about its impact on utility. This paper estimates the impact of the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing on well-being, by exploiting representative U.S. daily data. Using both a regression discontinuity and an event...
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Juggling paid work and elderly care provision in Japan : does a flexible work environment help family caregivers cope?
Niimi, Yoko - 2021
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Australian norms and factor analysis of Helmreich and Spence's work and family orientation instrument for measuring achievement motive
Hagel, Pauline; Trigg, Marie - 1994
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The ambiguous effect of minimum wages on workers and total hours
Strobl, Eric (contributor); Walsh, Frank A. (contributor) - 2007
We model a standard competitve labour market where firms choose combinations of workers and hours per worker to produce output. If one assumes that the scale of production has no impact on hours per worker, then the change in the number of workers and hours per worker resulting from a minimum...
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The minimum wage and hours per worker
Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank A. - 2010
In a competitive model we ease the assumption that efficiency units of labour are the product of hours and workers. We show that a minimum wage may either increase or decrease hours per worker and the change will have the opposite sign to the slope of the equilibrium hours hourly wage locus....
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The effects of cancer in the English labour market
Candon, David - 2014
The continued rise in overall cancer survival rates has ignited a field of research which examines the effect that cancer has on survivors' employment. Previous estimates of the effect of cancer on labour market outcomes, using U.S. data, show a significant reduction in employment and hours of...
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Gender differences in mental well-being : a decomposition analysis
Madden, David - 2008
The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is frequently used as a measure of mental well-being. A consistent pattern across countries is that women report lower levels of mental well-being, as measured by the GHQ. This paper applies decomposition techniques to Irish data for 1994 and 2000 to...
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The impact of victimisation on subjective well-being
Shannon, Matthew - 2021
This paper uses the UK Household Longitudinal Study to explore the relationship between victimisation and several measures of subjective well-being. Using person fixed effects models, I find that being attacked or insulted both significantly reduce well-being at the mean, with no significant...
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Worker well-being before and during the COVID-19 restrictions : a longitudinal study in the UK
Pelly, Diane; Doyle, Orla; Daly, Michael; Delaney, Liam - 2021
. However, these improvements come at the expense of reduced homelife satisfaction and job performance. …
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