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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 Job Satisfaction Improve the Health of Workers? New Evidence Using Panel Data and Objective Measures of Health
Fischer, Justina A. V.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio …) cross-sectional causality problems and (b) absence of objective measures of physical health that complement self …-reported measures of health status. Not only does using the panel structure with individual fixed effects mitigate the bias from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703142
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Personality, Job Satisfaction and Health - The Mediating Influence of Affectivity
Fischer, Justina A. V.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) 144 (2008) III, pp. 379-435
This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and subjective and objective measures of health of … workers over 50 using the Swiss Household Panel (SHP) and cross-sectional data from the Survey on Health, Ageing and … measures of physical health and intellectual ability. We find a positive link between job satisfaction and various self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998468
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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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Long Work Hours and Health in China
Nie, Peng; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours … on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does … significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and poorer reported health, the effects are small. Also small are …
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Long work hours and health in China
Nie, Peng; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - In: China Economic Review 33 (2015) C, pp. 212-229
Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours … on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does … significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and poorer reported health, the effects are small. Also small are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264674
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022098
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Arbeit auf Abruf und Arbeitsmarktdynamik in der Schweiz: Evaluation eines (weitgehend) nicht regulierten Beschäftigungsverhältnisses
Henneberger, Fred; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Ziegler, Alexandre - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) 142 (2006) I, pp. 39-78
Atypical employment contracts are either considered as traps that hinder permanent employment in the primary segment of the labour market or as stepping-stones leading to stable employment. Whereas the former interpretation appears to apply to Germany, our analysis of on-call contracts in the...
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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...
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