Abstract Whistleblowers are a vital means of protecting society because they provide information about serious wrongdoing. And yet, people who speak up can suffer. Even so, debates on whistleblowing focus compelling employees to come forward, often overlooking the risk involved. Theoretical understanding whistleblowers’ post-disclosure experience is weak tangible and material impacts poorly und...

Within a broader context of economic costs the recent pandemic we calculate excess deaths during COVID-19 over whole population and split them into age subgroups. Further, estimate cost labor force lost due to pandemic. We employ general additive model set up counterfactual time series weekly count number if did not occur. Subtracting from actual fatalities provides us with deaths. The amount i...

This study examines the effect of labour market regulations on Greek tourism industry performance. The industry, steam engine economy, always drives to enhance efforts reach further savings in operating costs. However, that influence sector’s ability adjust costs have not been thoroughly investigated. We present a novel methodology permits evaluation technical and allocative efficiency one step...

INTRODUCTION To evaluate the relative effectiveness of tsetse control methods, their costs need to be analysed alongside their impact on tsetse populations. Very little has been published on the costs of methods specifically targeting human African trypanosomiasis. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS In northern Uganda, a 250 km2 field trial was undertaken using small (0.5 X 0.25 m) insecticide-tr...

Labour productivity affects food security, but quantifying this relationship has been scarce with respect to empirical literature. The Central Madagascar dataset explores the influence of labour productivity and related variables on the food security status of cassava farmers. Drawing on both theory and empirical evidence, this paper argues that fundamental effects of links between labour produ...

The performance of hospital buildings depends to a large degree on the efficiency of maintenance execution. The research objectives were to examine the efficiency of maintenance under alternative maintenance policies and alternative sources of labour (outsourcing vs. in-house). The research focused on main-tenance of hospital buildings as a model for multi-system buildings operating in dynamic ...

Mental Health and Labour Market Participation: Evidence from IV Panel Data Models A large body of empirical research links mental health and labour market outcomes; however, there are few studies that effectively control for the two-way causality between work and health and the existence of unobserved individual characteristics that might jointly determine health and labour market outcomes. In ...

This paper is concerned with the relationship between education, wages and working behaviour. The work is partly motivated by the sharp distinction in the literature between the returns to education and the effect of wages on labour supply. Education is the investment that cumulates in the form of human capital while labour supply is the utilization rate of that stock. Yet, variation in educati...