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The paper analyses the static and dynamic risk of poverty in the enlarged European Union. In the first part of the paper an overview of cross-sectional poverty rates in 25 European Member States (apart from Romania and Bulgaria) using several indexes is presented and assessed. In the second...
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Although social scientists have been investigating the nature and impact of job satisfaction for many decades …, economists only started to investigate job satisfaction systematically in the late 1980’s. Almost from the first systematic … studies of job satisfaction by economists, the research potential of the notion of pay level comparisons was realized. The …
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disparity due to the domestic roles of women. We analyzed the effects of remote work on work efficacy and satisfaction of … the satisfaction and wellbeing of employees have been reduced by the effects of remote work. Women in comparison to men …, in particular, have reported higher levels of work quality and efficacy while reporting lower levels of satisfaction …
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: Longitudinal data was drawn from the Health and Retirement Survey and the RAND-HRS data base for more than 6,000 individuals aged … of six measures including: self-rated health; self-rated memory; activities of daily living; instrumental activities of …
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Along with China becoming an upper-middle-income country from a lower-middle-income one after 2009, the happiness … 2009. We find that a rise of income inequality as well as the population share of middle age cohorts can widen China …’s happiness inequality, while an increase in income or education level has a reducing impact. Owning a house and being in …
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theories and empirical findings imply that achievement goal is potentially related to life satisfaction. However, the … relationship between achievement goal and life satisfaction remains relatively unexplored in the psychology literature. In this … study we examined how, and when, achievement goal affects life satisfaction, using original survey data from China. The …
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detrimental impact on employee utility, while job satisfaction tends to diminish over time as employees potentially adapt to …
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The objective of this work is to study the effect of institutional quality on labour productivity in sub-Saharan Africa. To do this, we considered a panel of 31 countries over the period from 1996 to 2016. Thus, we constructed an empirical model based on the stochastic frontier production...
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This paper attempts to test the non-monotonic effect of monetary incentives on job satisfaction. Specifically, 8 waves … biases, it is shown that relatively ‘small’ bonuses exert a significant negative effect on worker satisfaction. In contrast …
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real terms. Ninety five per cent of the income of medical schemes was derived from membership fees. The average real growth … rate of income was 8.4 per cent, while net assets increased by only 3 per cent. An average deficit of R11.02 million …
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