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Worker Identity, Employment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policy

Snower, Dennis J. - 2013

This paper provides a model of "social hysteresis" whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances...

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Worker Identity, Employment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policy

Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021

This paper provides a model of “social hysteresis,” whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment...

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Was de Montesquieu (only half) right? : evidence for a stronger work ethic in cold climates

Oumer, Abdella; Maseland, Robbert K. J.; Garretsen, Harry - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 173 (2020), pp. 256-269

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The laziness myth : narratives of work and the good life in South Africa

Jeske, Christine - 2020

"We want to live a good life" : Introduction -- "They don't want to work": The Laziness Myth -- "You can't understand it" : Employers' Perspectives of the Unemployed -- "I need to respect that person and that person needs to respect me" : The Respect Narrative -- "Hustling is when you try to...

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Rethinking unemployment and the work ethic : beyond the 'quasi-Titmuss' paradigm

Dunn, Andrew - 2014

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Not Working at Work : Loafing, Unemployment and Labor Productivity

Burda, Michael - 2016

-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While average time spent by workers in non …-work conditional on any positive amount rises with the unemployment rate, the fraction of workers reporting positive values varies pro …-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is consistent with estimated …

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What work means : beyond the Puritan work ethic

Strauss, Claudia - 2024

"Drawing on the evocative stories of unemployed Americans from a wide range of occupations, from day laborers to corporate managers, both immigrant and native-born, Strauss shows that the standard cultural description of workaholics driven by a Puritan work ethic homogenizes diverse work...

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Jenseits des Arbeitsprinzips? : vom Ende der Erwerbsgesellschaft

Ahrens, Jörn (ed.) - 2000

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Ist Arbeit eine Pflicht? : normative Einstellungen zur Erwerbsarbeit, Arbeitslosigkeit und der Einfluss des Wohngebiets

Nonnenmacher, Alexandra - 2009 - 1. Aufl.

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Rzetelność pracownicza w opinii pracowników przemysłu

Wróblewski, Stefan - 1990

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