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Stressed by your job: What is the role of personnel policy?
Shvartsman, Elena; Beckmann, Michael - 2015
Work-related stress can lead to substantial health problems and thereby result in immense costs for establishments …. Therefore, the question as to what extent establishments contribute to their employees' stress levels is of great importance for … firm performance. We investigate the relationship between personnel policies and work-related stress by considering a …
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Stressed by your job: What is the role of personnel policy?
Shvartsman, Elena; Beckmann, Michael - 2015
Work-related stress can lead to substantial health problems and thereby result in immense costs for establishments …. Therefore, the question as to what extent establishments contribute to their employees' stress levels is of great importance for … firm performance. We investigate the relationship between personnel policies and work-related stress by considering a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443149
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Mental health and working conditions in European countries
Cottini, Elena; Lucifora, Claudio - 2010
Increased pressure for labour market flexibility and increasing demand over workers' performance have fostered the idea that working conditions, in most European countries, have progressively deteriorated with adverse effects on psychological well being and mental health. This paper investigates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269484
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High-Pressure, High-Paying Jobs?
Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes; Winkler, Erwin - 2022
Work-related stress has reportedly increased over time. Using worker-level survey data, we build a measure of work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470360
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High involvement management and employee well-being
Böckerman, Petri - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
A wide range of high involvement management practices, such as self-managed teams, incentive pay schemes, and employer-provided training have been shown to boost firms’ productivity and financial performance. However, less is known about whether these practices, which give employees more...
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Homeoffice nach fast zwei Jahren Pandemie: Ein Rück- und Ausblick über die Verbreitung und Struktur der räumlichen und zeitlichen Flexibilisierung von Arbeit in Deutschland, Europa...
Flüter-Hoffmann, Christiane; Stettes, Oliver - 2022
Beschäftigten in Deutschland, die zumindest gelegentlich von zuhause arbeiteten, so stieg ihre Zahl mit Beginn der Pandemie, dem … im Februar 2021 fast die Hälfte (49 Prozent) der abhängig Beschäftigten in Deutschland in ihrer häuslichen Umgebung. In … pandemic 13 percent of the labor force and just under ten percent of all dependent employees in Germany worked from home at …
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Menschen mit Behinderungen im Homeoffice: Erleichterung für die Inklusion? Eine Gegenüberstellung von Deutschland und einigen angelsächsischen Ländern
Flüter-Hoffmann, Christiane; Traub, Patricia - 2023
beispielsweise in Deutschland vor der Pandemie im Jahr 2019 nur 12,9 Prozent aller Erwerbstätigen im Homeoffice, so stieg der Anteil … der Berufe von Beschäftigten ohne Behinderungen. Der vorliegende Bericht stellt die Situation in Deutschland derjenigen in … increased, but not as much as for workers without disabilities: For example, in Germany, only 12.9 percent of all employed …
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Gender Variations of Physiolocical and Psychological Stress Among Police Officers
Gächter, Martin; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2009
This paper analyses the effect of gender on reported and perceived levels of stress through examination of both the … physical and psychological indicators. It may be interesting to work with police data due to high stress levels among police … female officers are significantly more likely to report suffering from physical stress indicators than their male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168338
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Retaining the Thin Blue Line: What Shapes Workers' Willingness Not to Quit the Current Work Environment
Gächter, Martin; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2009
the department substantially. On the other hand, higher physical and psychological stress and the experience of traumatic … accept stress as an acceptable factor in their job description. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168339
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Do working hours affect health? Evidence from statutory workweek regulations in Germany
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Wunder, Christoph - 2018
This study estimates the causal effect of working hours on health. We deal with the endogeneity of working hours through instrumental variables techniques. In particular, we exploit exogenous variation in working hours from statutory workweek regulations in the German public sector as an...
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