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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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Does high involvement management improve worker wellbeing?
Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84 (2012) 2, pp. 660-680
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 highlight the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011048124
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Unemployment and Mortality in France, 1982-2002
Buchmueller, Tom; Grignon, Michel; Jusot, Florence - Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis … - 2007
This study uses aggregate panel data on 96 French départements for the period from 1982 to 2002 to investigate the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and mortality, controlling for local area and time fixed effects. Consistent with research using data from other countries, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008549520
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Circumstances and Efforts: How important is their correlation for the measurement of inequality of opportunity in health?
Trannoy, Alain; Tubeuf, Sandy; Jusot, Florence - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
overall health inequality according to the different normative principles. Our results suggest that, in practice, the … contributions of circumstances and efforts to explained health inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734928
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Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health in 22 European Countries
Jusot, Florence; Kunst, Anton E.; Leinsalu, Mall; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008
Comparisons among countries can help to identify opportunities for the reduction of inequalities in health. We compared … the magnitude of inequalities in mortality and self-assessed health among 22 countries in all parts of Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707063
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Unemployment and Mortality in France, 1982-2002
Jusot, Florence; Grignon, Michel; Buchmueller, Tom - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2007
This study uses aggregate panel data on 96 French départements for the period from 1982 to 2002 to investigate the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and mortality, controlling for local area and time fixed effects. Consistent with research using data from other countries, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707898
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Effort or Circumstances : Which one matters in health inequality ?
Trannoy, Alain; Tubeuf, Sandy; Jusot, Florence - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010
in effort to be in good health to overall health inequality in France. It examines three alternative specifications of … issue at stake is how to treat the correlation between circumstances and effort. Using a representative French health survey … circumstances to inequalities in health ranges between 44.5% and up to 46.4% according to the scenario, whereas the contribution of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011072585
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Why so Unhappy? The Effect of Union Membership on Job Satisfaction
Capellari, Lorenzo; Bryson, Alex; Lucifora, Claudio - Royal Economic Society - RES - 2003
We investigate the effect of union membership on job satisfaction. We account for the endogenous selection induced by the sorting of workers into unionised jobs and use different methodologies to address the question of how the membership decision is related to overall job satisfaction and to...
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Human Capital, Matching and Job Satisfaction
Barmby, Tim; Bryson, Alex; Eberth, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
Using a model of wage determination developed by Stevens (2003) we offer an explanation of why tenure has a negative effect when entered in job satisfaction equations. If job satisfaction measures match quality, then the explanation follows from a model of the labour market in which workers...
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Heterogeneity in Union Status and Employee Well-Being
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper examines if workplace and co-worker union status affect employee wellbeing. In contrast to the literature focusing on links between one’s own membership status and wellbeing, we focus principally on non-union employees. We find that being in a union workplace and having union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604108