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Occupational Status and Health Transitions

Ribar, David C. - 2011

We use longitudinal data from the 1984 through 2007 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine how occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability...

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The Effects of Status Mobility and Group Identity on Trust

Suchon, Rémi - 2019

In a laboratory experiment we test the interaction effects of status and group identity on interpersonal trust. Natural … the disadvantaged group that nevertheless achieve the status of expert) trust less both in-group and out-group trustees … interacting with promoted individuals impacts trust or trustworthiness …

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Does Telework Stress Employees Out? A Study on Working at Home and Subjective Well-Being for Wage/Salary Workers

Song, Younghwan - 2018

Using data from the 2010, 2012, and 2013 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Modules, this paper examines how subjective well-being (SWB) varies between working at home and working in the workplace among wage/salary workers. Both OLS and individual fixed-effects models are employed for...

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Health Impaired Employees' Job Satisfaction : New Evidence from Athens, Greece

Drydakis, Nick - 2011

By utilizing the 2008 Athens Area Study (AAS) data set, this study investigates four aspects of job satisfaction – total pay, promotion prospects, respect received from one's supervisor, and total job satisfaction – between healthy and heath-impaired employees. Health impaired employees are...

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Monetary Rewards, Hierarchy Level and Working Hours as Drivers of Employees' Self-Evaluations

Grund, Christian; Soboll, Alexandra - 2023

In this study, we explore the relation between job characteristics and employees' self-evaluations of performance in comparison to their colleagues' performance. Making use of unique individual panel data of ten large firms in Germany's chemical industry, we focus on monetary rewards (bonus...

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Types of Institutions and Well-Being of Self-Employed and Paid Employees in Europe

Fritsch, Michael - 2019

This paper analyzes the role of different types of institutions, such as entrepreneurship-facilitating entry conditions, labor market regulations, quality of government, and perception of corruption for individual well-being among self-employed and paid employed individuals. Well-being is...

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Climbing the Ladders of Job Satisfaction and Employees' Organizational Commitment : A Semi-Nonparametric Approach

Vieira, José António Cabral - 2019

Researchers and human resource practitioners are nearly unanimous that satisfied and committed employees can play a major positive role in business performance. There is, however, a need for further evidence on what determines satisfaction at the workplace and how it can be promoted. In other...

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Employee Trust and Workplace Performance

Brown, Sarah - 2014

We explore the relationship between employee trust of managers and workplace performance. We present a theoretical … framework which serves to establish a link between employee trust and firm performance as well as to identify possible … whether the average level of employee trust within the workplace influences workplace performance. We exploit the 2004 and …

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Choosing or Inheriting the Joneses : The Origins of Reference Groups

Leites, Martín; Paleo, Camila; Ramos Morilla, Xavier; … - 2022

Do individuals choose their reference groups, i.e. their Joneses, or are they culturally transmitted across generations? We provide evidence that feeds the theoretical debate about the endogeneity or exogeneity of reference groups. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that reference groups are...

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Ethnic Capital and Class Reproduction : Comparing the Impact of Socio-Economic Status on Children’s Educational Attainment Across Ethno-Religious Groups in Israel

Miaari, Sami H.; Khattab, Nabil; Kraus, Vered; Yonay, … - 2021

. We suggest that the disadvantage of Palestinian schools in a Jewish-dominated state is offset by the tougher competition …

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