Arbeitspapier

Sick of your Job? – Negative Health Effects from Non-Optimal Employment

In an empirical study based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, the effect of job quality on individual health is analyzed. Extending previous studies methodologically to estimate unbiased effects of job satisfaction on individual health, it can be shown that low job satisfaction affects individual health negatively. In a second step, the underlying forces of this broad effect are disentangled. The analysis shows that the effects of job satisfaction on health run over the channels of job security and working hours above the individual limit. Job quality not only has a strong impact on mental health but physical health is affected as well. At the same time, health-damaging behavior including smoking and being overweight is not affected.

ISBN
978-3-86788-589-8
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Ruhr Economic Papers ; No. 514

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Health and Inequality
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy
Thema
individual health
job satisfaction

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Kleibrink, Jan
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI)
(wo)
Essen
(wann)
2014

DOI
doi:10.4419/86788589
Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Kleibrink, Jan
  • Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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