Lost jobs, broken marriages

Social Costs of Jobs Lost Due to Environmental Regulations

This paper estimates the social costs of job loss due to environmental regulation. Per job lost, potential social costs of job loss are high, plausibly over $100,000 in present value costs (2012 dollars) per permanently lost job. However, these social costs will typically be far less than the earnings associated with lost jobs, because labor markets and workers adjust, increased leisure has som...

Convict Marriages

Sir,?Major YVoolley's excellent article on Convict marriages in the Andamans in your March number does not appear to have aroused the comment?favourable or the reverse?which I anticipated and which it deserved. It is, however, of great interest to all those who have at heart the improvement of the criminal in the present and his disappearance in the future. As lie says, it is rather a shock to ...

Excess days lost as an index for identifying jobs with ergonomic stress.

A new health impact index, excess cost, is advocated for identifying jobs in need of further study regarding ergonomic problems. The excess cost index is compared with incidence rate, excess count, and severity rate indices in terms of concept and appropriateness to the purpose. The four indices are illustrated with data regarding medical leave from an automobile assembly plant and evaluated in...

“Fair marriages”: An impossibility

Article history: Received 6 October 2008 Received in revised form 27 May 2009 Accepted 10 June 2009 Available online 21 June 2009

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