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Services are Different: Job Characteristics, Working Conditions and Pay Levels in OECD Countries

Ochel, Wolfgang - In: CESifo Forum 02 (2001) 4, pp. 55-57

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The impact of flexible working arrangements on work-life conflict and work pressure in Ireland

Russell, Helen; O'Connell, Philip J.; McGinnity, Frances - 2007

Recent rapid economic growth in Ireland has been accompanied by a strong surge in the number of women in employment, and this has led to a significant increase in the proportion of dual-earner families. These changes have brought the issue of reconciliation between work and care commitments to...

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Personal and job related predictors of teacher stress and job performance among school teachers

Hanif, Rubina; Tariq, Sadaf; Nadeem, Masood - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 5 (2011) 2, pp. 319-329

The present study was conducted to find out role of personal and job related variables in teacher stress and job … performance of school teachers. Furthermore, levels and sources of stress and their relationship with job performance among … teachers were also explored. The measures used in this study were indigenously developed i.e., Teacher Stress Inventory (TSI …

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For now, middle-skilled jobs are the most vulnerable

Levy, Frank; Murnane, Richard J. - In: CESifo Forum 07 (2006) 2, pp. 38

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Activities that do not require physical contact or geographical proximity

Blinder, Alan S. - In: CESifo Forum 07 (2006) 2, pp. 39-40

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Why Do Part-Time Workers Earn Less? : The Role of Worker and Job Skills

Hirsch, Barry T. - 2004

The wages of part-time workers are considerably lower than are those of full-time workers. Measurable worker and job characteristics, including occupational skill requirements, account for much of the part-time penalty. Longitudinal analysis indicates that much of the remaining gap reflects...

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Gender differences in work stress, related to organizational conflicts and organizational constrains: An empirical research

Stafyla, Amalia; Kaltsidou, Georgia; Spyridis, Nikolaos - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 6 (2013) 1, pp. 91-101

In modern era, stress at workplace is a component of employees' and organizations' daily routine. The current research … intends to study the gender differences as far as the ways that stress is witnessed in the workplace is concerned … interpersonal conflicts at workplace to a larger extent; also that both men and women would not be so different on stress that stems …

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Work disability, work, and justification bias in Europe and the U.S.

Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; van Soest, Arthur - 2009

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 such a measure is the possibility that different groups...

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Role selection and team performance

Cooper, David J.; Sutter, Matthias - 2011

Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and a seller. Understanding optimal play is very...

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Testing the Theory of Multitasking: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment in Chinese Factories

Hong, Fuhai; Hossain, Tanjim; List, John A.; Tanaka, Migiwa - 2013

A well-recognized problem in the multitasking literature is that workers might substantially reduce their effort on tasks that produce unobservable outputs as they seek the salient rewards to observable outputs. Since the theory related to multitasking is decades ahead of the empirical evidence,...

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