Does the organization of business matter for social policy development in the advanced capitalist democracies? Conventional welfare state analysis has given this significant question scant attention. We argue, however, that the representational power of business, coordination across business interest units, and integration of associations in corporatist policy-making forums, or what we call the...

AIM This paper is a report of a study to examine the relationship between nursing employees' perceptions of instrumental and symbolic dimensions of employer image on the one hand and their intentions to recommend their organization as an employer and their willingness to testify in their organization's recruitment materials on the other. BACKGROUND Previous research suggests that word-of-mout...

During most of the post-World War II period, American men have been leaving the labor force at earlier and earlier ages. Evidence suggests that this trend has been under way for more than a century. However, in the mid-1980s, this trend came to an abrupt halt. Male labor force participation rates have been flat since 1985, and have actually increased over the past several years. Understanding t...

F. Impens and Ch. J. Bordé SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, 61 Avenue de l’Observatoire, 75014 Paris, France Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postale 68528, 21941-972 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Institut Galilée, F-93430 Villetaneuse, France Received 28 November 2007; revised manuscript received 4 December 2008; published 1...

OBJECTIVES Changes in employment contracts may impact the quality of working life, job insecurity, health and work-related attitudes. We examined the validity of two partly competing theoretical approaches. Based upon a segmentation approach, we expected no change in scores among stable trajectories, whereas upward trajectories were expected to be for the better and downward trajectories to be ...

STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis. OBJECTIVES To describe the early health care utilization for occupational back pain. To identify factors associated with health care seeking and provider choice among persons with occupational back pain. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Back pain is the most prevalent work-related injury, yet little is known about patterns of care for occupational back pain....

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This study aims to bridge two research streams that have evolved relatively apart from each other, namely the research streams on organizational identity and on employer branding (employer image). In particular, we posit that it is crucial to examine which factors company outsiders (applicants) as well as company insiders (employees) associate with a given employer. To this end, this study uses...