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Compensation for Industrial Accidents and Incentives for Prevention : A Theoretical and Empirical Perspective
Philipsen, Niels J. - 2010
This paper examines the compensation systems for industrial accidents in Belgium, Germany and Great Britain, thereby taking into account some recent empirical data on industrial accident rates and (although hardly available) amounts of compensation paid out to employee victims. The key question...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142362
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Disability and work: the role of health shocks and childhood circumstances
Lindeboom, Maarten; Llena-Nozal, Ana; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2006
This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274395
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Disability and Work: the Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances
Lindeboom, Maarten; Nozal, Ana Llena; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2006
This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325582
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Disability and work : the role of health shocks and childhood circumstances
Lindeboom, Maarten; Llena-Nozal, Ana; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2006
This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349212
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Mixed economy of welfare emerging in Poland : outplacement and non-governmental employment agencies examples
Klimczuk, Andrzej - 2015
One of the key challenges of social policy in Poland in the early 21st century is to adapt its management to the requirements of a service economy. Essential conditions for the mixed economy of welfare have been already created after adjustments of the subsystems of national social policy during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450482
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Repeated job quits: stepping stones or learning about quality?
Gielen, Anne C. - 2008
Despite the fact that worker quits are often associated with wage gains and higher overall job satisfaction, many workers quit once again within one or two years after changing jobs initially. Such repeated job quit behavior may arise as a stepping stone to better quality jobs (Burdett, 1978) or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269024
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Workplace job satisfaction in Britain: evidence from linked employer-employee data
Haile, Getinet A. - 2009
This paper examines the determinants of job satisfaction in Britain using nationally representative linked employer-employee data (WERS2004) and alternative econometric techniques. It uses eight facets of job satisfaction for the purpose. As well as underscoring the importance of accounting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269335
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Anticipation, free-rider problem, and adaptation to trade union: re-examining the curious case of dissatisfied union members
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2010
This paper documents evidence that rejects the paradox of dissatisfied union members. Using eleven waves of the BHPS, it studies the past, contemporaneous, and future effects of union membership on job satisfaction. By separating union free-riders from other nonmembers in the fixed effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269586
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Pay enough, don't pay too much or don't pay at all? The impact of bonus intensity on job satisfaction
Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2010
Using ten waves (1998-2007) of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), this paper investigates the ceteris paribus association between the intensity of incentive pay, the dynamic change in bonus status and the utility derived from work. After controlling for individual heterogeneity biases,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269686
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Management-employee relations, firm size and job satisfaction
Tansel, Aysıt; Gazioglu, Şaziye - 2013
This paper investigates the job satisfaction in relation to managerial attitudes towards employees and firm size using the linked employer-employee survey results in Britain.We first investigate the management-employee relationships and the firm size using maximum likelihood probit estimation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445858