Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how different measures of working conditions affect the health at work of female and male workers of 15 European countries. Particular attention is paid to the gender dimension of this relationship. Design/methodology/approach – Using the...

Well-established evidence has shown that negative psychosocial working conditions adversely affect the health and well-being of prime-age workers, yet little is known about the consequences on the health of older workers. Our article examines the associations between declines in health in later...

This article presents an analysis of the evolution of job quality from 2000 to 2010 in the European Union 15, using a newly developed composite measure of job quality that is applied to the European Working Conditions Survey. After a careful study of the evolution of job quality across the...

Am 1. Januar wird Slowenien als 13. Mitglied der Europäischen Währungsunion beitreten. Bulgarien und Rumänien werden zum gleichen Zeitpunkt neue Mitglieder der EU, so dass die Anzahl der potentiellen Eurokandidatenländer auf 14 anwachsen wird. Welche Auswirkungen sind von der Erweiterung der...