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mental health and two alternative workplace productivity measures – absenteeism and presenteeism (i.e., lower productivity … health status. Job conditions are relatively more important in understanding diminished productivity at work if workers are …Much of the economic cost of mental illness stems from workers' reduced productivity. We analyze the links between …
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mental health and two alternative workplace productivity measures - absenteeism and presenteeism (i.e., lower productivity … health status. Job conditions are relatively more important in understanding diminished productivity at work if workers are …Much of the economic cost of mental illness stems from workers' reduced productivity. We analyze the links between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457379
This paper investigates an alternative proxy for individual worker productivity in physical work settings: a direct … daily productivity obtained from firm personnel data, with physical activity; they are strongly related. Second, the paper … investigates the effect of a health intervention on physical activity, using a temporally randomized offer of malaria testing and …
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Sleep is a source of energy. This energy is available in limited quantity and individuals must decide when it should be renewed and when it should be consumed. The economics of sleeping and the economics of resource extraction are one and the same. More specifically, utility maximization with...
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We study the relationship between physical activity as a direct measure of effort and productivity. First, we evaluate … the association of agricultural workers' physical activity with their daily productivity, which is directly observed from … company personnel piece-rate payment records, and find a positive correlation. Second, we estimate the impact of a health …
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This paper investigates an alternative proxy for individual worker productivity in physical work settings: a direct … daily productivity obtained from firm personnel data, with physical activity; they are strongly related. Second, the paper … investigates the effect of a health intervention on physical activity, using a temporally randomized offer of malaria testing and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943703
’ labour force participation, cognitive ability, and health in a simple theoretical model, and estimates the effects of … in countries with few formal care alternatives. Furthermore, caregivers in all countries suffer from worse mental health … when caregiving is prompted by poor parental health. The results for the effects of caregiving on physical health and …
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likelihood of college attendance without any negative mental health impact. Though high and low income groups use a different mix …
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Using Norwegian administrative register data, we assess the impact of health shocks hitting lone parents, specifically … to the deteriorating health of a parent tend to be short-lived and mostly manifest as temporary absences from work rather …
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incorporates mental and physical health. Correlated mental and physical health production functions are simultaneously estimated …, including the endogenous decisions to seek psychotherapy and smoke cigarettes as health accumulation factors. The model is … indicate that mental health has a stronger impact on labor supply than physical health. At the same time, estimates show that …
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