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PURPOSE: This study addresses the impact of late-life paid work on physical and psychological well-being. METHODS … socioeconomic factors. RESULTS: Those who worked in 2000 tended to report greater well-being in 2002 than those who did not work in … work on mood indicators and mortality. For those forced into retirement (20% of the sample), work is not an alternative …
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Research has established nature connectedness as a reliable correlate of well-being. In the current research, we examined whether meaning in life mediated the association between nature connectedness and well-being. In Study 1, 311 undergraduates completed multiple measures of nature...
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The living standards in Canada, defined as real GDP per capita, declined relative to those in the United States in the 1990s. A key challenge facing Canadians is the reversal of this situation. In this article, Andrew Sharpe of the Centre for the Study of Living Standards develops a framework...
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Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given inadequate attention to the broader ramifications of productivity, both in terms of shedding light on the importance of productivity for the advancement of various aspects of social...
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Future of Work and Well-being.<p> The research project examines the contradictory pressures for policies and practices … towards both the inhibition and the enhancement of work-related well-being that are likely in growth industries.<p> The … overall aim is to evaluate the development, implementation and use of work-related well-being policies in four selected growth …
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Finland research programme The Future of Work and Well-being (2008-2011). This collaborative project provides national and …-Watt University and Reading University, UK. The project examines policies and practices towards the enhancement of work-related well … the development, implementation and use of work-related well-being policies in four selected growth industries. These …
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perspective of capital’, in which hired work is defined as a cost. The question must also be distinguished from more conventional … work (as human self-expression) despite its centrality for felt well-being and physical and mental health and capability …. The typical conception of work under capitalism is as a cost, for the capitalist must pay for it. The activist strand in …
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‘the perspective of capitalÂ’, in which hired work is defined as a cost. The question must also be distinguished from more conventional … work (as human self-expression) despite its centrality for felt well-being and physical and mental health and capability …. The typical conception of work under capitalism is as a cost, for the capitalist must pay for it. The activist strand in …
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perspective of capital", in which hired work is defined as a cost. The question must also be distinguished from more conventional … work (as human self-expression) despite its centrality for felt well-being and physical and mental health and capability …. The typical conception of work under capitalism is as a cost, for the capitalist must pay for it. The activist strand in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011205390