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Does Job Satisfaction Improve the Health of Workers?: New Evidence Using Panel Data and Objective Measures of Health
Fischer, Justina A. V.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio …) cross-sectional causality problems and (b) absence of objective measures of physical health that complement self …-reported measures of health status. Not only does using the panel structure with individual fixed effects mitigate the bias from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017376
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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 Effects of Overeducation on Productivity in Germany - The Firms' Viewpoint
Büchel, Felix - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
Several firm-related aspects of employee productivity are analyzed using GSOEP data. The basic premise is that, as a consequence of frustration, overeducated employees are less productive than their correctly allocated colleagues. However, the results obtained in the present study contradict the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761621
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Non-standard Work Schedules and Health Outcomes in Australia: Some Evidence from the HILDA Panel
Ulker, Aydogan - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 9 (2006) 4, pp. 417-445
What does the around-the-clock economic activity mean for workers’ health? Despite the fact that non-standard work … health and the existing evidence is ambiguous. In this paper I examine the associations between non-standard job schedules … and workers’ physical and mental health outcomes using longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565248
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Occupational Skill Level and Hazardous Exposures among Working Victorians
LaMontagne, Anthony; Vallance, Deborah - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 11 (2008) 1, pp. 47-70
This paper examines the patterning of exposures to occupational hazards in relation to occupational skill level as a proxy for pay rate, testing the general hypothesis that exposures to occupational hazards increase in prevalence with decreasing skill level. A population-based telephone survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565271
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Does Job Satisfaction Improve the Health of Workers? New Evidence Using Panel Data and Objective Measures of Health
Fischer, Justina A. V.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio …) cross-sectional causality problems and (b) absence of objective measures of physical health that complement self …-reported measures of health status. Not only does using the panel structure with individual fixed effects mitigate the bias from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703142
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The Informal Labor Market in Colombia: identification and characterization
Raquel, Bernal - In: REVISTA DESARROLLO Y SOCIEDAD (2009)
In this paper, we study the extent and nature of informality in Colombia by using the new chapter on informality in the Encuesta Continua de Hogares (ECH) from August 2006 to December 2006, which includes new questions deepening the information on coverage of social protection benefits, labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008546337
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Personality, Job Satisfaction and Health - The Mediating Influence of Affectivity
Fischer, Justina A. V.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) 144 (2008) III, pp. 379-435
This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and subjective and objective measures of health of … workers over 50 using the Swiss Household Panel (SHP) and cross-sectional data from the Survey on Health, Ageing and … measures of physical health and intellectual ability. We find a positive link between job satisfaction and various self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998468
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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
non financial factors. Non financial factors include working conditions, health status and mortality expectations … macroeconomic indicators of pension entitlements recently produced by the OECD. Health and work conditions come out as strong … percentage points in the probability of wishing to retire as soon as possible. Declaring oneself in bad or very bad health has a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005074025