People at Work

People at Work

Why do people retire from work early?

This article examines the validity of a mortality study of early retirees by Dr. Eric Kingson. The Kingson study supports the hypothesis that men who retired early were very prone to have work-limiting conditions even though they were not awarded Disability Insurance benefits. This article maintains that Kingson's study is analytically faulty because of the procedure used to categorize the samp...

Making Services Work for Poor People

Success in reaching the Millennium Development Goals, particularly those related to human development outcomes, will depend not just on faster economic growth and the flow of resources, but on the ability to translate those resources into services. Thus improving service delivery has become a higher policy priority. The purpose of this Research Program is to find new ways to measure the efficac...

Robots that Work in Collaboration with People

Developing robots with social skills and understanding is a critical step towards enabling them to cooperate with people as capable partners, to communicate with people intuitively, and to learn quickly and effectively from natural human instruction. These abilities would enable many new and exciting applications for robots that require them to play a long-term, supportive, and helpful role in ...

1 Creating Decent Work for Young People :

More than 1 billion people today are between 15 and 25 years of age and nearly 40 per cent of the world’s population is below the age of 20. However, eighty-five per cent of young people live in developing countries where a vast majority of them are struggling to learn and work in a context of extreme poverty. According to World Bank figures, approximately 1.2 billion people struggle for surviv...