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Performance Appraisals, Works Councils and Employees’ Presenteeism Behaviour

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Presenteeism behaviour, that is, working despite illness, is a common phenomenon worldwide and can have severe consequences for employees and firms alike. In this study, we investigate the relationship between the use of company performance appraisals and employees’ presenteeism behaviour.
Christian Grund, Anna Nießen
wiley   +1 more source

Lifecycle land decumulation strategies in a seventeenth‐century rural community

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Economic historians have tried to better understand how and why land was redistributed in rural communities, although our empirical insights have been limited by a lack of serial evidence for land distribution within the same locality across a long period.
Daniel R. Curtis, Bram van Besouw
wiley   +1 more source

Living standards and forced labour: A comparative study of colonial Africa, 1918–74

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite significant advances in the quantitative study of African history, the Portuguese colonial empire remains an underexplored topic. This paper provides the first quantitative assessment of worker living standards in Angola and Mozambique, contextualized within a broader comparison of colonial African empires.
Leo Dolan
wiley   +1 more source

The disappearance of malaria from Denmark, 1862–1900

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The reason for malaria's disappearance from northwestern Europe in the early twentieth century has long been discussed but remains an unresolved conundrum. This is partially due to a previous focus on the early modern era, and partially because various theories have never been tested against each other.
Mathias Mølbak Ingholt   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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