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The causal effect of multitasking on work-related mental health: The more you do, the worse you feel
Pikos, Anna Katharina - 2017
This paper analyses whether there is a causal relationship between work-related mental health problems and multitasking …. The empirical strategies uses technological change as an instrument for multitasking. In the first stage, the introduction … of new production and information technologies is associated with increases in multitasking. Production technology …
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The task composition and work-related mental health: A descriptive study
Pikos, Anna Katharina - 2017
This paper analyzes the relationship between work-related mental health problems and multitasking (the number of … appear small at first sight but multitasking increased by nearly one task from 2006 to 2012. The loss in gross value added …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776715
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Education and work-related mental health: Higher educated employees are worse off
Pikos, Anna Katharina - 2017
demands and resources but not with a different stress perception of missing resources. Higher educated have significantly …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405005
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Trans People, Transitioning, Mental Health, Life and Job Satisfaction
Drydakis, Nick - 2019
affects positivity towards life, extraversion, ability to cope with stress, optimism about the future, self-reported health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012108670
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Trans People, Transitioning, Mental Health, Life and Job Satisfaction
Drydakis, Nick - 2019
affects positivity towards life, extraversion, ability to cope with stress, optimism about the future, self-reported health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141330
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Income and Employment Effects of Health Shocks - A Test Case for the German Welfare State
Riphahn, Regina T. - 1998
Using data from the first eleven waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel this study investigates the dynamic effects of health shocks on employment and economic wellbeing of older workers. A health shock trebles the probability of leaving the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment...
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Can the changing nature of jobs account for national trends in job satisfaction?
Green, Francis; Tsitsianis, Nicholas - 2004
by changes in the quality of jobs. There were falls in job satisfaction in both Britain and Germany. Elsewhere job … satisfaction, in order to attempt to account statistically for trends in job satisfaction in Britain and in Germany. We find that … in job satisfaction in either country. In Germany there was a modest fall in the proportion of people working the number …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290649
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Fixed-term employment, work organization and job satisfaction: Evidence from German individual-level data
Beckmann, Michael; Cornelissen, Thomas; Schauenberg, Bernd - 2009
The present paper examines the joint effect of fixed-term employment and work organization on job satisfaction using individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Specifically, we analyze whether workers who are heterogeneous in terms of the type of working contract...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390641
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Are Self-Employed Really Happier than Employees? An Approach Modelling Adaptation and Anticipation Effects to Self-Employment and General Job Changes
Hanglberger, Dominik; Merz, Joachim - 2011
Empirical analyses using cross-sectional and panel data found significantly higher levels of job satisfaction for self-employed than for employees. We argue that those estimates in previous studies might be biased by neglecting anticipation and adaptation effects. For testing we specify several...
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