This article analyzes under which conditions a manager can motivate a junior worker by verbal communication, and explains why communication is often tied up with organizational choices as job enlargement and collaboration. Our model has two important features. First, the manager has more...

Die Beziehungen zwischen Arbeit und Gesundheit sind vielfältig, komplex und dynamisch. Das Ziel der vorliegenden Studie, die im Auftrag der Abteilung Arbeitsmarktforschung und Berufsinformation des AMS Österreich vom sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschungs- und Beratungsinstitut Analyse, Beratung...

This paper studies the relevance of social interactions among the unemployed. Identification is based on a salient and selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change affects entitled individuals not only directly,...

There are considerable differences in the incidence of sickness, the pattern of diseases and the duration of episodes of sickness by age, gender, education and employment status. Employed have a significantly better health record than the unemployed. The question why this should be so is...