What matters more for employees’ mental health: job quality or job quantity?

Encouraging Knowledge Sharing among Employees: How Job Design Matters

Job design is one of the most frequently researched practices in the Human Resource Management (HRM) literature, and knowledge sharing has become an important and heavily researched managerial practice. The links between these practices, however, have received little attention in the literature. We argue that job design matters to knowledge sharing for motivational reasons. Specifi cally, jobs ...

What Determines Job Duration for Male Employees in Germany?

We examine job durations of German workers using linked employer–employee data. Our results indicate that exit rates are strongly influenced by firm characteristics. The effects of some of these characteristics, however, are limited to particular job positions or skill groups. There is clear evidence for a sorting process whereby workers with long expected job durations are matched to firms off...

Mental health, job satisfaction, and job stress among general practitioners.

OBJECTIVE To identify sources of job stress associated with high levels of job dissatisfaction and negative mental wellbeing among general practitioners in England. DESIGN Multivariate analysis of large database of general practitioners compiled from results of confidential questionnaire survey. Data obtained on independent variables of job stress, demographic factors, and personality. Depend...

High density Lipoprotein; What to Measure: Quality or Quantity?

The Effect of Employer - Provided Health Insurance on Job Mobility : Job - Lock or Job - Push ? Patricia

This paper analyzes the impact of employer-provided health insurance on individual job mobility. Much attention has been paid in recent years to the problem of job-lock, in which workers are locked into jobs they would otherwise leave because of fear of losing health insurance. Much less attention has been paid to the parallel case in which a worker in need of coverage is pushed out of a job in...