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effect of SWB varies by types of homeworking.In comparison with working in the workplace, telework increases stress in both …
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-quality panel data we estimate pre- and post-promotion effects on job attributes, physical health, mental health and life … stress, income and hours worked. However, despite these large effects on job attributes, we find that promotions have … negligible effects on workers' health and happiness. Only mental health seems affected, with estimates suggesting significant …
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heath-impaired employees. Health impaired employees are found to be less satisfied according to all job satisfaction … also that women are more satisfied with their jobs than men are, regardless of health status. Moreover, the estimations … show that health impaired employees' job satisfaction is affected more than healthy employees' job satisfaction by adverse …
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The paper examines the link between workplace disability (WD) and job satisfaction (JS) in Britain using linked data from WESR2011. The results obtained indicate workplaces with respondents with disabilities report lower JS vis-à-vis workplaces without such respondents in the private sector....
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Using a new German individual data set, we investigate the influence on health with respect to personal traits measured … and emotional stability correlate positively with good health. Job characteristics like activities combined with … necessity of multitasking affect health in the same direction. If employees get help if needed from their colleagues and if they …
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as a whole, promotees do not exhibit a health improvement after promotion. Instead the data suggest that workers with … good health are more likely to be promoted. In the private sector, we find that job promotion significantly worsens people …
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Research has shown that commuting is related to the health of workers, and that mode choice may have differential … effects on this relationship. We analyze the relationship between commuting by different modes of transport and the health … status reported by US workers, using the 2014-2016 Eating and Health (EH) Module of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). We …
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Most developing countries face shortages of health workers in rural areas. This has profound consequences for health … service delivery, and ultimately for health outcomes. To design policies that rectify these geographic imbalances it is vital … to understand what factors determine health workers' choice to work in rural areas. But empirical analysis of health …
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and beyond. In this paper, we analyze the impact of prenatal stress on cognitive and non-cognitive development of the … in-utero to maternal stress do not have different birth-weight relative to those who were not exposed, yet by age 2 … exposed to in utero stress.We also find that the negative impacts are observed if in-utero stress occurs during the first …
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To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question … such as do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do? A possible drawback of … don't work, non-working respondents may classify a given health problem as a more serious work limitation than working …
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