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Boomerang Nurses : Why They Leave and Why They Return

Brown, Rebecca - 2019

Nursing turnover within hospitals is a nationwide problem, with over 20% of new nurses leaving their position in the first year of practice. Of these some return to work at the same institution they left within 2 years. The impact on patient outcomes and cost to the institution are similar to...

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The Distance between Perception and Reality in the Social Domains of Life

Lora, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

between perception and reality in four social domains-health, employment, the perception of security, and social ranking. The … relevant with respect to health and job satisfaction. Cultural differences across countries are pronounced in perceptions of … health, while cultural differences across socioeconomic groups are more apparent with respect to job satisfaction. Affect and …

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Do You Think Your Risk Is Fair Paid? Evidence From Italian Labor Market

Carrieri, Vincenzo; Porto, Edoardo Di; Elia, Leandro - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino - 2009

Starting from Adam Smith's intuition, compensating wage differentials are one of the most widespread explanation to describe why agents should bear occupational risk of injury and death. For nearly thirty years, economists have attempted to and empirical evidence on such wage differentials...

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The public health costs of job loss

Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009

We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job … loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss … as job displacements due to plant closure are unlikely caused by workers' health status, but potentially have important …

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The distance between perception and reality in the social domains of life

Lora, Eduardo - 2013

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Happiness as a guide to labor market policy

Ritzen, Jo - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

Measures of individual happiness, or well-being, can guide labor market policies. Individual unemployment, as well as the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and unemployment benefits can contribute to happiness—though when...

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Macht Wochenendarbeit unzufrieden?

Metzing, Maria; Richter, David - In: DIW Wochenbericht 82 (2015) 50, pp. 1183-1188

satisfaction. The present analyses show that on average, employees who work weekends exhibit lower satisfaction with their health …

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Helping with the kids? How family-friendly workplaces affect parental well-being and behavior

Lauber, Verena; Storck, Johanna - 2016

Despite political efforts, balancing work and family life is still challenging. This paper provides novel evidence on the effect of firm level interventions that seek to reduce the work-life conflict. The focus is on how a specific workplace policy, namely childcare support, affects the...

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Helping with the kids? How family-friendly workplaces affect parental well-being and behavior

Lauber, Verena; Storck, Johanna - 2016

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Happiness as a guide to labor market policy

Ritzen, Jo - In: IZA World of Labor (2019)

Measures of individual happiness, or well-being, can guide labor market policies. Individual unemployment, as well as the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and un-employment benefits or a basic income can contribute to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984690