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Burgard, Sarah A., Michael R. Elliott, Kara Zivin & James S. House (2013): Working conditions and depressive symptoms. A prospective study of US adults. In: Journal of occupational and environmental medicine, Jg. 55, H. 9, S. 1007-1014. DOI:10.1097/JOM.0b013e3182a299af

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"Objective: Prior longitudinal studies of negative working conditions and depression generally have used a single exposure indicator, such as job strain, and have required consistent availability of the measure across waves and selection of only those working at all measurement points.
Methods: Up to four waves of the Americans' Changing Lives study (1986 to 2001/2) and item-response theory (IRT) models were used to generate wave-specific measures of negative working conditions. Random-intercept linear mixed models assessed the association between the score and depressive symptoms.
Results: Adjusting for covariates, negative working conditions were associated with significantly greater depressive symptoms.
Conclusions: A summary score of negative working conditions allowed the use of all available working conditions measures and predicted depressive symptoms in a nationally representative sample of US workers observed for up to 15 years. Linear mixed models also allowed retention of intermittent workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Carter, Bob, Andy Danford, Debra Howcroft, Helen Richardson, Andrew Smith & Phil Taylor (2013): 'Stressed out of my box': employee experience of lean working and occupational ill-health in clerical work in the UK public sector. In: Work, employment and society, Jg. 27, H. 5, S. 747-767. DOI:10.1177/0950017012469064

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"Occupational health and safety (OHS) is under-researched in the sociology of work and employment. This deficit is most pronounced for white-collar occupations. Despite growing awareness of the significance of psychosocial conditions - notably stress - and musculoskeletal disorders, white-collar work is considered by conventional OHS discourse to be 'safe'. This study's locus is clerical processing in the UK public sector, specifically Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, in the context of efficiency savings programmes. The key initiative was lean working, which involved redesigned workflow, task fragmentation, standardization and individual targets. Utilizing a holistic model of white-collar OHS and in-depth quantitative and qualitative data, the evidence of widespread self-reported ill-health symptoms is compelling. Statistical tests of association demonstrate that the transformed work organization that accompanied lean working contributed most to employees', particularly women's, ill-health complaints." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Cottini, Elena & Claudio Lucifora (2013): Mental health and working conditions in Europe. In: ILR review, Jg. 66, H. 4, S. 958-988. DOI:10.1177/001979391306600409

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"The authors investigate recent patterns in mental health at the workplace across 15 European countries using three waves of the European Working Conditions Survey. Their study shows that adverse working conditions, defined in terms of job demands and job hazards, are strongly associated with workers' mental health problems, and it also finds a causal effect of job quality on workers' mental health. Their analysis detects heterogeneous effects across countries and demographic groups and shows that labor market regulations and health care systems explain some of these cross-country differences." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Engelhardt, Henriette & Thomas Leopold (Hrsg.); Schoen, Peter, Andrea Gehring, Lisa Heinrich, Sabine Pöschko, Erika Schlichenmaier, Andreas Franken, Anna Lindner & Nicole Mink (2013): Alternde Gesellschaften in Europa. Empirische Untersuchungen mit Daten des SHARE. (Bamberger Beiträge zur Soziologie 10), Bamberg, 112 S.

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"Dieser Band präsentiert drei ausgewählte empirische Studien, die im Rahmen des Bevölkerungswissenschaftlichen Forschungspraktikums an der Universität Bamberg entstanden sind. Der erste Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit 'familialen Transferregimes' in Europa, dem privaten Äquivalent zu öffentlichen Wohlfahrtsstaatsregimes. Im Mittelpunkt der Analyse steht die Frage, ob und wie sich osteuropäische Länder von nord-, west- und südeuropäischen Regimetypen unterscheiden. Der zweite Beitrag untersucht, ob sich ältere Menschen nach dem Renteneintritt gleichbleibend, vermehrt oder seltener ehrenamtlich engagieren. Der dritte Beitrag konzentriert sich ebenfalls auf die Effekte des Renteneintritts. Diese Arbeit geht der Frage nach, ob die Verrentung für ältere Menschen ein stressauslösendes Ereignis ist, das den gesundheitlichen Abbau beschleunigt. Die Autorinnen und Autoren untersuchen diese aktuellen sozialwissenschaftlichen Fragestellungen mit Daten der ersten beiden Wellen des Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Fagerlind, Anna-Carin, Maria Gustavsson, Gun Johansson & Kerstin Ekberg (2013): Experience of work-related flow. Does high decision latitude enhance benefits gained from job resources? In: Journal of vocational behavior, Jg. 83, H. 2, S. 171-180. DOI:10.1016/j.jvb.2013.03.010

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"Flow is an experience of enjoyment, intrinsic motivation and absorption, which may occur in situations involving high challenges and high skill utilization. This study investigated the likelihood of experiencing work-related flow in relation to the job strain categories of the demand - control model, and to job resources such as social capital and an innovative learning climate. A questionnaire was sent out to employees in nine Swedish organizations (n = 3667, 57% response rate). Binary logistic regression analysis was performed. The results show that active jobs, low-strain jobs, a high degree of social capital and innovative learning climate increased the likelihood of experiencing work-related flow. In jobs with high decision latitude, regardless of demands, there was an increased likelihood to benefit from social capital and an innovative learning climate. The results emphasize the importance of autonomy and skill utilization, to enable the use of additional job resources in order to promote work-related flow and well-being at work." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Gstrein, Michaela, Liliana Mateeva, Petra Rodiga-Laßnig, Pamela Abbott & Claire Wallace (2013): Third European quality of life survey. Quality of life in Europe: Quality of society and public services. Dublin, 113 S. DOI:10.2806/37653

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"This report explores how Europeans perceive the quality of their societies, and of their public services. It looks at such aspects of society as trust in institutions and other people, perceived tensions between social groups, attitudes towards migrants and the effects of the economic crisis on social inclusion and social cohesion. It finds that satisfaction with the economic situation of one's country, not being in employment and overall life satisfaction appear to boost satisfaction with public services; hardship appears to reduce it. In societal terms, trust in institutions decreased visibly from 2007 to 2011. Trust in people however changed less than trust in institutions and is more similar across the EU. A positive relationship exists between trust in institutions and satisfaction with the economic situation of one's own country; a negative relationship between trust in institutions and inequality. And tensions were perceived to be highest between different racial and ethnic groups and between rich and poor." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Huemer, Ulrike & Christine Mayrhuber (2013): Erwerbsaustritts- und Pensionsantrittsdynamik im Bausektor. In: Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung. Monatsberichte, Jg. 86, H. 11, S. 869-882.

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"Die hohe körperliche Arbeitsbelastung und die großen Schwankungen der Beschäftigungsnachfrage im Jahresverlauf kennzeichnen den Arbeitsmarkt im Bauwesen. Nicht zuletzt aufgrund dieser Charakteristika unterscheiden sich die Erwerbsaustritts- und die Pensionsantrittsdynamik der Bauarbeiter von der Gesamtwirtschaft. Krankheitsbedingte Pensionierungen sind häufiger (Bauwirtschaft 62%, Gesamtwirtschaft 53%), allerdings ist das durchschnittliche Antrittsalter höher (54,7 Jahre) als in der Gesamtwirtschaft (52,9 Jahre). Der Erwerbsaustritt erfolgt 1,5 Jahre (Bauwirtschaft) bzw. 1,7 Jahre (Gesamtwirtschaft) vor dem Pensionsantritt." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Krenn, Manfred (2013): Well-being and work. Dublin, 9 S.

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"Well-being, health and safety at work and work-related health problems have been attracting growing public attention in Austria in recent years. An indicator for this rise in interest is the implementation of the Austrian Occupational Health Monitor by the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labour. The survey tries to analyse the links between working conditions and the health status of employees on the basis of very rich data. Some of the most interesting results are presented in this report." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Loisel, Patrick & Johannes R. Anema (Hrsg.) Feuerstein, Michael, Ellen MacEachen, Glenn Pransky & Katia Costa-Black (Mithrsg.) (2013): Handbook of work disability. Prevention and management. New York: Springer London, 513 S. DOI:10.1007/978-1-4614-6214-9

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As work is recognized as beneficial to people's well-being, its absence is being considered in greater detail. Increasingly, work disability is being understood as a public health issue, and work disability prevention is gaining strength as an aspect of occupational health. The Handbook of Work Disability overviews this emerging field in accessible and practical fashion. This timely volume offers current theory for understanding the determinants of work disability (regardless of illness or injury that keeps individuals from the workplace), and a template for interventions that benefit both patient and other stakeholders. Experts across multiple fields examine the lives of work disabled patients, analyze the societal and workplace burden of work disability, and review bedrock concepts of the disability and its prevention. Featuring assessment tools, evidence-based intervention strategies, and insights into disorder-specific populations, this is information useful to the practicing clinician, the researcher, and the trainee. ;
Included in the Handbook:;
┐ Pain, chronicity, and disability;
┐ Measuring outcomes in work disability prevention;
┐ The influence of care providers on work disability;
┐ Psychosocial factors for disability and return to work;
┐ Core components of return-to-work interventions;
┐ Plus issue-specific chapters on low back pain, TBI, mental illness, and cancer.

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(2013): Mental health and work: Belgium. (Mental health and work), Paris, 119 S. DOI:10.1787/9789264187566-en

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"Tackling mental ill-health of the working-age population is becoming a key issue for labour market and social policies in OECD countries. OECD governments increasingly recognise that policy has a major role to play in keeping people with mental ill-health in employment or bringing those outside of the labour market back to it, and in preventing mental illness. This report on Belgium is the first in a series of reports looking at how the broader education, health, social and labour market policy challenges identified in Sick on the Job? Myths and Realities about Mental Health and Work (OECD, 2012) are being tackled in a number of OECD countries. It concludes that Belgium can build on a system with a number of structural strengths that are not yet exploited to the best possible extent." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Mohseni-Cheraghlou, Amin (2013): Labor markets and mental wellbeing. Labor market conditions and suicides in the United States (1979-2004). In: The Journal of Socio-Economics, Jg. 45, H. August, S. 175-186. DOI:10.1016/j.socec.2013.05.003

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"Applying a fixed-effects panel analysis to a 1979-2004 panel data of the U.S. states, this essay re-examines the link between labor markets and suicides in the United States. By disaggregating the analysis across genders and three different age groups (20-34, 35-64, and 65+) and analyzing several other labor market indicators besides overall unemployment rates, the essay finds that deteriorations in labor markets is associated with hikes in suicide rates of only men and women between 35 and 64 years of age. In other words, higher group-specific unemployment rates, larger deviations of unemployment rates from their group-specific trends, and larger variance in the overall unemployment rates are all associated with higher suicide rates of adults aged 35-64, or prime working-age adults. These findings suggest that the mental wellbeing of prime working-age adults is more dependent on labor market conditions than people in other age groups. Therefore, during period when prime working-age adults are facing unfavorable labor market conditions, U.S. suicide prevention programs must especially target this group of population." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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(2013): Mental health and work: Denmark. (Mental health and work), Paris, 124 S. DOI:10.1787/9789264188631-en

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"Tackling mental ill-health of the working-age population is becoming a key issue for labour market and social policies in OECD countries. OECD governments increasingly recognise that policy has a major role to play in keeping people with mental ill-health in employment or bringing those outside of the labour market back to it, and in preventing mental illness. This report on Denmark is the third in a series of reports looking at how the broader education, health, social and labour market policy challenges identified in Sick on the Job? Myths and Realities about Mental Health and Work (OECD, 2012) are being tackled in a number of OECD countries. It concludes that the Danish system has a number of strengths that have yet to be used in a more effective way, but also that quite a few changes are needed in order to raise the labour market particiption of people with mental ill-health." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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(2013): Mental health and work: Sweden. (Mental health and work), Paris, 130 S. DOI:10.1787/9789264188730-en

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"Tackling mental ill-health of the working-age population is becoming a key issue for labour market and social policies in OECD countries. OECD governments increasingly recognise that policy has a major role to play in keeping people with mental ill-health in employment or bringing those outside of the labour market back to it, and in preventing mental illness. This report on Sweden is the second in a series of reports looking at how the broader education, health, social and labour market policy challenges identified in Sick on the Job? Myths and Realities about Mental Health and Work (OECD, 2012) are being tackled in a number of OECD countries. It concludes that Swedish policy makers recognise the need to take steps to tackle mental ill-health and its labour market implications, but that a more comprehensive reform effort and a long-term commitment to it is needed in order to prevent problems from arising in the first place and respond more effectively when they do occur." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Suh, Ellie, Tiffany Tsang, Polly Vizard, Asghar Zaidi & Tania Burchardt (2013): Third European quality of life survey. Quality of life in Europe: Social inequalities. Dublin, 69 S. DOI:10.2806/45943

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"This report examines social inequalities in the distribution of freedoms and opportunities among individuals and population subgroups in Europe. Using data from the European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS), the report builds up an evidence base on social inequalities in four critical areas of life: health, standard of living, productive and valued activities, and individual, family and social life. It examines the role of important determinants of social inequalities including gender, age, disability status, employment status and citizenship status, as well as other drivers. The report finds that, in some instances, there is evidence of disadvantages becoming more prevalent and social inequalities widening between the second wave of the EQLS in 2007 and the third wave in 2011. It recommends that growing policy attention to the multidimensional aspects of well-being be coupled with effective public action to address social inequalities and integrated into general policies at the European and Member State levels." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Vercruyssen, Anina & Bart van de Putte (2013): Work-family conflict and stress: indications of the distinctiveness of role combination stress for Belgian working mothers. In: Community, work & family, Jg. 16, H. 4, S. 351-371. DOI:10.1080/13668803.2013.776515

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"Research on the relation between work-family conflict (WFC) and stress focuses either on domain/role-specific stress (e.g. work stress), which is by definition and, operationalisation attributed to the respective role, or it focuses on 'general' stress, which can be a too broad or too general concept to measure stress related to WFC. This study introduces the concept of 'role combination stress' to indicate a stress that is more specifically related to the work-family role system and WFC than general and role-specific stress. The analysis of data on 429 Flemish working mothers shows that role combination stress is indeed a distinct type of stress." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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"The EU and its citizens faced enormous challenges in 2012 as the limited economic recovery of the previous year stalled, GDP fell and unemployment began to grow again. As this yearbook on Living and working in Europe 2012 describes, one of the starkest findings was the divergence between and within countries. Some Member States have suffered greatly while others have not. Higher-paid jobs have been much more resilient than low to mid-paid jobs and have grown. Groups that were already vulnerable have suffered more in the crisis and countries have diverged on quality of life measures." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Leschke, Janine, Andrew Watt & Mairead Finn (2012): Job quality in the crisis. An update of the Job Quality Index (JQI). (Working paper / European Trade Union Institute 2012,07), Brüssel, 51 S.

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"This paper is an update of the synthetic job quality index (JQI) for the EU27 countries which has been created in 2008 (see ETUI Working paper 2008.03 and 2008.07) in an attempt to shed light on the question of how European countries compare with each other and how they are developing over time in terms of job quality. The results point out that the crisis seems to have affected different dimensions of job quality in different ways. Overall, there is a decline in measured job quality and job quality levels in Europe remain highly diverse. There is a clear increase in the use of part-time and fixed-term contracts and/or in the extent to which workers reported that they were working in such jobs involuntarily. Moreover, the numbers of workers who are afraid to lose their job have increased markedly which are clear signs of the declining bargaining power of labour brought on by the crisis." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Lindgren, Karl-Oskar (2012): Workplace size and sickness absence transitions. (Working papers / Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy 2012,26), Uppsala, 40 S.

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"This study examines how workplace size relates to transitions in- and out-of sickness absence. Overall, the study finds important differences in the long-term sickness absence behavior of individuals working in small and large workplaces. In particular, the results show that the sickness spells are of higher incidence, but somewhat shorter duration in large workplaces. However, the results also show that the strength of these relationships varies across different labor market groups. The analysis is based on rich administrative data from Sweden over the period 1994 - 2008." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Odegaard, Fredrik & Pontus Roos (2012): Measuring workers' health and psychosocial work-environment on firm productivity. (Working papers / Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy 2012,17), Uppsala, 41 S.

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"We discuss a model for analyzing and measuring workers' health and psychosocial work-environment on firm productivity. Productivity is measured through the Malmquist productivity index approach using Data Envelopment Analysis. A novel component of the model is that in addition to standard quantity (or tradable) variables, we incorporate quality (or non-tradable) variables. Specifically we focus on two quality input variables: workers' health status and psychosocial work-environment. The two variables are modelled as latent or unobserved variables using Item Response Theory. Changes over time in productivity are decomposed to asses the contribution from the changes of the input quality variables. The model is illustrated using data from a worksite health promotion program conducted at three large Swedish manufacturing plants (2 paper mills, 1 steel factory) from 2000 to 2003. Over the four years we observe a general improvement in efficiency of 2-5%, out of which half can be attributed to the improvement in the quality input variables." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Stier, Haya & Meir Yaish (2012): Occupational segregation and gender inequality in job quality. A multi-level approach. (AIAS working paper 121), Amsterdam, 43 S.

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"We examine gender differences in perceived quality of employment (achievement, content, job insecurity, job flexibility, and physical and emotional conditions). We ask whether women's occupations provide better conditions in areas that facilitate their dual role in society, such as flexible working schedule, as a trade-off for low monetary rewards. Specifically, we examine how closely women's concentration in broader occupational categories, embedded in particular national contexts, is associated with gender differences in job quality.
Utilizing the 2005 ISSP modules on work orientation, we find that women lag behind men on most dimensions of job quality. This result runs counter to the hypothesis that women's occupations compensate for their low wages and limited opportunities for promotion by providing better employment conditions. Just as important, however, the gender gap is found to narrow in most job quality dimensions as women's relative share in occupations grows. The implications of these results are discussed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))