Drawing on evidence from the United States and Germany, this paper offers a survey of the effects of worker …

activities by facilitating more flexible organisational structures in firms. We distinguish between functional flexibility (the … ability of workers to co-operate and take decentralised decisions) and numerical flexibility (the reduction of fixed costs …, mainly due to outsourcing business processes). Our results from a large and representative data set of firms in Germany show …

This paper studies how stress affects the mortality risk. Using a flexible approach and allowing for timevarying … treatment effects, I find no impact of stress on the short-run mortality risk but a substantially increase in the long-run. The … behaviours as a reaction to stress. Investigating the possible protective effects of mental health support, I find that it can …

ects of workload on worker performance through the cognitive impact of stress hormones. Using a patient census of 1 … planning ; behavioral operations ; stress …