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Using linked employer-employee data for Finland we examine associations between job design and ten measures of worker wellbeing. In accordance with Karasek's (1979) model we find positive correlations between many aspects of worker wellbeing and job control. However, contrary to the model, job...
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Since the so-called Hartz IV reforms around 2005 and during the global crisis of 2008/2009, the German labor market featured mainly declining unemployment rates. We develop a search and matching model with heterogeneous skills to explore the role of structural and cyclical policies for this...
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important influence of the extended family on the decisions of older workers. Finally, in the third Chapter "Does Stress Shorten … Your Life? Evidence from Parental Bereavement", I investigate the effect of stress on the mortality of parents using a … tend to adopt adverse health behavior as a reaction to stress. The estimates for women are inconclusive. Checking the …
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Can having more education than a job requires reduce one's chances of being offered the job? We study this question in a sample of applications to jobs that are posted on an urban Chinese website. We find that being overqualified in this way does not reduce the success rates of...
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