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Stress and coping : an economic approach
Wälde, Klaus - 2015
. Stress reduces instantaneous utility of an individual directly and via a cognitive load argument. Coping can be functional …Stress is ubiquitous in society. In our model, stressors translate into subjective stress via an appraisal process … frequency of uncontrolled coping - emotional outbursts - as a function of an individualś personality and environment. Outbursts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392611
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Stress and coping : an economic approach
Wälde, Klaus - 2018
We present a psychological model of stress. Appraisal translates stressors into subjective stress. Stress reduces … instantaneous utility of an individual directly and via cognitive load. Coping can be under the control of the individual or more … automatic. We predict the occurrence of uncontrolled coping .emotional outbursts .as a function of an individual's theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011819320
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Identification of "wasteful commuting" using search theory
Ommeren, Jos van; Straaten, J. Willemijn van der - 2005
In this paper, we employ search theory as a micro-economic foundation for the wasteful commuting hypothesis. It is argued that the commute of the self-employed is the result of a search process for vacant workplaces, whereas employees search for vacant jobs through space. Because the arrival...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346473
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Absence from work of the self-employed : a comparison with paid employees
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2013
Utilising a large representative data set for Germany, this study contrasts absenteeism of self-employed individuals and paid employees. We find that absence from work is clearly less prevalent among the self-employed than among paid employees. Only to a small extent, this difference can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010195595
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Entrepreneurs and freelancers are they time and income multidimensional poor? : the German case
Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2016
Entrepreneurs and freelancers, the self-employed, commonly are characterized as not only to be relatively rich in income but also as to be rich in time because of their time-sovereignty in principle. Our introducing study scrutinises these results and notions about the well-being situation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458904
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Entrepreneurs and Freelancers: are they time and income multidimensional poor? : the German Case
Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2016 - This version: April 2016
Entrepreneurs and freelancers, the self-employed, commonly are characterized as not only to be relatively rich in income but also as to be rich in time because of their time-sovereignty in principle. Our introducing study scrutinises these results and notions about the well-being situation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509118
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(Why) do self-employed parents have more children?
Broussard, Nzinga; Chami, Ralph; Hess, Gregory - 2003
We provide a theory whereby non-benevolent, self-employed households increase their expected family size to raise the likelihood that an inside family member will be a good match at running the business. Hence, having larger family sizes raises the self-employed household s expected return to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404319
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Absence from work of the self-employed : a comparison with paid employees
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2013
Utilising a large representative data set for Germany, this study contrasts absenteeism of self-employed individuals and paid employees. We find that absence from work is clearly less prevalent among the self-employed than among paid employees. Only to a small extent, this difference can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221560
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Have productivity and pay decoupled in the UK?
Teichgräber, Andreas; Van Reenen, John - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012655861
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COVID-19: a crisis of the female self-employed
Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; Seebauer, Johannes - 2021 - This version: March 10,2021
We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the government-mandated measures to contain its spread, affect the self-employed – particularly women – in Germany. For our analysis, we use representative, real-time survey data in which respondents were asked about their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012600154