Beschäftigte in Deutschland sollen künftig bis 67 arbeiten. Doch bereits in der Altersgruppe zwischen 45 und 65 werden viele Menschen durch die Belastungen im Job krank, zeigt die internationale Forschung.Die gute Nachricht für ältere Beschäftigte ist: Wer einen dauerhaften Job hat, ist im...

This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach exploiting complementarities between controlled lab and representative panel data. In a simple principal-agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals...

This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach exploiting complementarities between controlled lab and representative field data. In a simple principal-agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals...

This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise...

This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach exploiting complementarities between controlled lab and representative field data. In a simple principal-agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals...

Objective: To quantify the association between long working hours and alcohol use.Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies and unpublished individual participant data. Data sources: A systematic search of PubMed and Embase databases in April 2014 for published studies,...

Background: Effort-reward imbalance (ERI) is an established conceptualisation of work stress. Although a validated effort-reward questionnaire is available for public use, many epidemiological studies adopt shortened scales and proxy measures. To examine the agreement between different...

An inverse relation between socio-economic class and occurrence of ischemic heart disease (IHD) in advanced societies is an often replicated finding from empirical studies. Yet, the processes which produce these effects remain an open question. One promising explanation concerns the prevalence...