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Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate the effect of communication messages based on two forms of thinking about the future—expectation and fantasy—on consumer evaluations and choice. While expectations emphasize that a desired event is either likely or not likely to occur, fantasies elicit a mental image of a desired event either happening or not happening. In three
Nevena T. Koukova
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Indirect costs of bronchial asthma and its complications
Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2019 The study presents an analysis of indirect costs in Poland generated by bronchial asthma, which according to the ICD-10 classification was marked with number J45.
Żaneta Kieliszek +2 more
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Worker absence and shirking: evidence from matched teacher-school data [PDF]
We utilise a unique matched teacher-school data set of absenteeism records to quantify shirking behaviour in primary and secondary schools. Shirking behaviour is shown to vary systematically across schools, and hence schools are characterised as either ...
Colin Green, G Leeves, S Bradley
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A Scoping Review of Bullying and Harassment in Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations
Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Approximately 15% of workers are exposed to bullying in their workplace. However, few studies appear to have been conducted in nonprofit and voluntary organizations. This scoping review explored prevalence and structural and contextual factors that influence bullying in nonprofit and voluntary organizations.
Margaret Hodgins +4 more
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Mental disorders absenteeism in the years 2004 and 2009 in Slovenia
Zdravniški Vestnik, 2014 Background: Absenteeism is a quality indicator of the negative health of the employed population. 6.7–8 % of total absenteeism in Slovenia is due to mental disorders.Methods: We have assembled and compared the lost working days because of mental ...
Jasmina Patkovič Colarič, Matej Kravos
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Factors Contributing to Work-Related Absenteeism during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy, 2020 Workplace absenteeism is a complex issue that can be caused by various factors which include job dissatisfaction, organizational environment, or personal problems.
Grigore Oana Magda
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Attendance and Exam Performance at University [PDF]
Marburger (2006) explored the link between absenteeism and exam performance by assessing the impact on absenteeism of removing a university wide policy of mandatory attendance for a single class. His results indicate that while an attendance policy has a
David O. Allen, Don J. Webber
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Bullying and school attendance: a case study of senior high school students in Ghana [PDF]
, 2010 This paper focuses on senior high school students and the ways that bullying affects their school attendance. Selected items from the 2008 Ghana Global School-based Student Health Survey are analysed first to explore the relationships between the ...
Bosumtwi-Sam, Cynthia +3 more
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Are public housing projects good for kids after all?
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, EarlyView.Abstract Is public housing bad for children? The net effect of moving into public housing on children's academic outcomes is theoretically ambiguous and likely to depend on changes to neighborhood and school characteristics. Drawing on detailed individual‐level longitudinal data on New York City public school students, we exploit plausibly random ...
Jeehee Han, Amy Ellen Schwartz
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Intermarriage amid immigration status uncertainty: Evidence from DACA
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, EarlyView.Abstract In 2012, the Obama administration issued the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program by executive order. Since then, more than 800,000 undocumented immigrants who arrived as children have benefited from renewable 2‐year reprieves from deportation and work permits.
Catalina Amuedo‐Dorantes, Chunbei Wang
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