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factory employment affects women's economic empowerment and well-being. Using a combination of survey data and qualitative …, poor working conditions, and difficulties combining domestic responsibilities with factory employment. In order to achieve …
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Not all countries provide universal access to publicly funded paid sick pay. Amongst countries that do, compensation rates can be low and coverage incomplete. This leaves a significant role for employer-provided paid sick pay in many countries. In this paper, we study who has access to...
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Retention of skilled workers is critical for the delivery of public services in high-stakes environments such as hospital care. We study how contractual pay terms affect the retention of trainee doctors in the English NHS and the relationship between trainee doctors' attrition and hospital...
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substantial differences across sectors, by working from home intensities, and by worker characteristics. Workers in industries and …
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Mental well-being has declined during the Covid-19 pandemic in several developed countries, and particularly in the UK. Given the resurgence of the disease in western Europe during autumn 2020 and concurrently increasing restrictions, we investigate the possible effect on well-being of a winter...
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In times of demographic change, better job quality is needed to promote health and thereby extend employment … neglected their combined effects on health and employment. To address this limitation, we have built upon an established … affects non-employment and how mental and physical health mediate this association. Analyses were based on representative data …
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We investigate the role of employment in explaining changes in the mental health of single mothers compared to … health, higher employment, and longer working hours. We estimate a Heckman selection model for employment and hours worked. A … that employment was associated with better mental health for all women. Higher job hours were associated with lower mental …
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The UK was one of only three countries that granted free movement of workers to accession nationals following the enlargement of the European Union in May 2004. The resulting large, rapid and concentrated migration inflow can be seen as a natural experiment that arguably corresponds closely to...
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Previous modelling of the impact of disability on employment has failed to allow for a direct effect rendering some … individuals capable of work. A model in which both a capacity and a desire for work are necessary conditions for employment is … failure to allow for it results in overestimation of the wage elasticity of employment. The accuracy of self-reported capacity …
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This paper documents the key stylised facts underlying the evolution of labour supply at the extensive and intensive margins in the last forty years in three countries: United-States, United-Kingdom and France. We develop a statistical decomposition that provides bounds on changes at the...
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