US researchers fear job losses from privatization drive

Where Researchers Fear to Tread:

Job Losses and Child Outcomes

Job Losses and Child Outcomes Based on matched employer-employee data from Norway, we analyze the effects of worker displacement in 1986-1987 on their children’s earnings in 1999-2001. Using displacement of fathers to indicate an exogenous earnings shock we seek to identify whether family resources have a direct effect on children’s economic outcome. As in previous Scandinavian studies, we find...

Drive out Fear: Deming Revisited

Today management by fear is ubiquitous. Managers do not trust workers and micromanagement is rife. Such behaviours and cultures lead to suboptimal performance. This paper therefore revisits one of the major components of a Total Quality Management (TQM) culture identified by Dr W.E. Deming as the primary duty of every manager – the removal of fear from the workplace. The paper explores, through...

Conditioned inhibition of fear resulting from negative CS-US contingencies.

Two experiments are reported which indicate that negative contingencies between CSs and shock set up conditioned inhibitors. In Experiment 1, this inhibition was measured by retardation in the subsequent acquisition of a CER to the CS. Stimuli with greater negative CS-US contingencies were more retarded in CER acquisition; various control procedures were employed. In Experiment 2, inhibition wa...

Job Security, Stress and Health: Evidence from the Russian Privatization Experience

In this paper, we examine the health consequences of concern over job loss. We use panel data from Russia that include measures of perceived likelihood of job loss and various measures of health status. In order to deal with concerns about reverse causality and unobservable differences between those with high and low likelihood of job loss, we instrument for changes in self-assessed likelihood ...