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  2. Job strain - Wikipedia

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    Job strain is a form of psychosocial stress that occurs in the workplace. One of the most common forms of stress, it is characterized by a combination of low salaries, high demands, and low levels of control over things such as raises and paid time off. [1]

  3. Occupational stress - Wikipedia

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    The causes of occupational stress can be placed into a broad category of what the main occupational stressor is and a more specific category of what causes occupational stress. The broad category of occupational stressors include some of the following: bad management practices, the job content and its demands, a lack of support or autonomy and ...

  4. Structural unemployment - Wikipedia

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    While temporary changes in overall demand for labor cause cyclical unemployment, structural unemployment can be caused by temporary changes in demand from different industries. For example, seasonal unemployment often affects farm workers after harvesting is complete, and workers in resort towns after the tourist season ends.

  5. Technological unemployment - Wikipedia

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    Thousands of man-years of work was performed in a matter of hours by the bombe codebreaking machine during World War II. A contemporary example of technological unemployment is the displacement of retail cashiers by self-service tills and cashierless stores. That technological change can cause short-term job losses is widely accepted.

  6. Baumol effect - Wikipedia

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    Firms may respond to increases in labor costs induced by the Baumol effect in a variety of ways, including: [12] Cost and price disease: Prices in stagnant industries tend to grow faster than average; Stagnant output: Real output in low-productivity-growth industries tends to grow more slowly relative to the overall economy

  7. Causes of unemployment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    U.S. labor force and employment measured as percentages of the civilian non-institutional population (aged 16+) U.S. proportion of the civilian labor force aged 16 years and older that was not in the labor force by reason, 2004 and 2014 The graphic shows how different factors contributed to the changes in U.S. labor force participation from ...

  8. Employee turnover - Wikipedia

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    Estimating the costs of turnover within an organization can be a worthwhile exercise, especially since such costs are unlikely to appear in an organization’s balance sheets: some of the direct costs can be readily calculated, while the indirect costs can often be more difficult to determine and may require “educated guesses” (though not ...

  9. The labor problem - Wikipedia

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    The labor problem encompasses the difficulties faced by wage-earners and employers who began to cut wages for various reasons including increased technology, desire for lower costs or to stay in business. The wage-earning classes responded with strikes, by unionizing and by committing acts of outright violence.