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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323646
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Does High Involvement Management Improve Worker Wellbeing?
Bryson, Alex; Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 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 model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369378
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The sooner, the better? Analyzing preferences for early retirement in European countries
Blanchet, Didier; Debrand, Thierry - Institut de Recherche et de Documentation en Économie … - 2008
Individual preferences concerning retirement age are strongly differentiated both within and between countries. According to the Share survey, the proportion of workers aged from 50 to 65 who wished to retire as soon as possible in 2004 ranged from 31% in the Netherlands to 67% in Spain. Such a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005074025
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Does Working Longer Make People Healthier and Happier?
Calvo, Esteban - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
PURPOSE: This study addresses the impact of late-life paid work on physical and psychological well-being. METHODS: Longitudinal data was drawn from the Health and Retirement Survey and the RAND-HRS data base for more than 6,000 individuals aged 59 to 69 who were working or not-working in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616686
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The relationship between absence from work and job satisfaction: Greece and UK comparisons
Drakopoulos, Stavros A.; Grimani, Aikaterini - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The paper starts with a literature survey concerning absenteeism and job satisfaction. Most of the literature on absenteeism suggests that absence from work is a complex issue influenced by multiple causes, both of personal and of organizational nature. Job satisfaction has also been identified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021985
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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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Job Design and Job Satisfaction – Empirical Evidence for Germany?
Fahr, Rene - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 22 (2011) 1, pp. 28-46
The present paper uses a large representative data set for Germany to analyze the effect of an enriched job design …, which is characterized by a high degree of autonomy and multitasking, on job satisfaction. In our empirical approach we take …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855754
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Job Satisfaction, Work Time, and Well-Being Among Married Women in Japan
Boyles, Corinne; Shibata, Aiko - In: Feminist Economics 15 (2009) 1, pp. 57-84
in Japan and two aspects of well-being: job satisfaction and stress. The study demonstrates that rather than the amount … shows that paid work time has multiple spillover effects on stress. It discusses the tradeoffs that married women with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005451667
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Can the Changing Nature of Jobs Account for National Trends in Job Satisfaction?
Green, Francis; Tsitsianis, Nicholas - School of Economics, University of Kent - 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/10005404325
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The Causal Impact of Fear of Unemployment on Psychological Health
Reichert, Arndt; Tauchmann, Harald - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011
We analyze the eff ect of job insecurity on psychological health. We extend the group of people being aff ected to employees who have insecure jobs to account for a broader measure of the mental health consequences of potential unemployment. Using panel data with staff reductions in the company...
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