The Effects of Reducing the Entitlement Period to Unemployment Insurance Benefits This paper exploits a substantial reform of the Dutch UI law to study the effect of the entitlement period on job finding and subsequent labor market outcomes. Using detailed administrative data covering the full population we find that reducing the entitlement period increases the job finding rate, but decreases ...

OBJECTIVES To study the influence of change in self perceived psychosocial work characteristics on subsequent rates of sickness absence. METHODS Prospective cohort study of British civil service employees. Job control, job demands, and work social supports were measured in 1985/88 and in 1991/93. Analyses included 3817 British civil servants with sickness absence records at baseline (1985-89)...

The purpose of this research was to compare group-based and internet-based physical activity interventions in terms of desirability, participant characteristics, exercise self-efficacy, and barrier self-efficacy. Pretest questionnaires were completed prior to voluntary enrollment into either of the ten-week physical activity interventions. Both interventions were based on Social Cognitive Theor...

Background Introduction Well-established vocational education and training systems (VET) have become widely recognised as facilitating smooth school-to-work transitions (Buchmann 2011). One main reason for successful labour market entry can be found in institutionalised Abstract Background: This study links TREE panel data surveying school-to-work transitions in Switzerland with unique job adve...

Unemployment Insurance (UI) wage records allow a detailed look at the functioning of the labor market.1 Researchers used this database to examine statistical and economic relationships between job and worker flows. For example, using UI wage records for the State of Maryland, S. Burgess and others found that new hires are not limited to expanding firms; separations are not limited to shrinking ...

of how social and individual problems epitomised by and articulated through exhaustion discourse can generate social changes and new forms of subjectivities. Each of the chapters is too short to offer substantial analyses of the subject if taken individually. Those that deal with history are at times too broad and lacking in context (especially Chapters 2 and 3), without much archival research,...

Little research has examined the impacts of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems implementation on job satisfaction. Based on a 12-month study of 2,794 employees in a telecommunications firm, we found that ERP system implementation moderated the relationships between three job characteristics (skill variety, autonomy, and feedback) and job satisfaction. Our findings highlight the key role...

Data and measurement problems have complicated the debate over trends in job instability in the United States. In this paper we compare two cohorts of young white men from the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS), construct a rigorous measure of job change, and confirm earlier findings of a significant increase in job instability in recent years. Further validation of this increase is found when...

The authors investigate a previously overlooked yet important objective for employee job search--seeking leverage against the current employer. They explore the outcomes and correlates of leverage-seeking search and how it may differ from the more traditional objective for engaging in job search--to change jobs. Results show that leverage-seeking and separation-seeking search objectives associa...