Hours

Job Search, Hours Restrictions and Desired Hours of Work

We present a structural empirical job search model in which job offers are characterized by a wage rate and the length of the working week. The unemployed accept a job if the direct utility leve1 of the wage-hours combination is higher than the reservation utility level. The latter is determined by the direct utility of being unemployed (depending on the value of leisure and the benefit level) ...

Hours of Work

Out of hours care.

I ncreasingly the future organisation of paediatrics at secondary level, the place of first referral, depends greatly on the organisation and quality of care at primary level. The ability of paediatricians to influence primary child health care is limited at present to advocacy and training, but recently some have been expressing the view that we in the UK should follow US and European practice...

The wee hours.

By mid-afternoon, after your orthopedic adventures, after postop rounds, and a couple of labor epidurals, it’s time to make out Monday’s OR schedule. But, you don’t have enough “providers” to staff all the ORs. So, you make phone call after phone call, hoping to enlist some help (otherwise, you might not make it home tomorrow). Then, the ICU calls. Can you please intubate someone? Next, the ER ...

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