The purposes of this article are to determine: (a) employer attitudes toward hiring exoffenders, and (b) how these attitudes are affected by the level of training the ex-offender received while incarcerated, government incentives to hire, type of offense committed, and the relationship of the crime to the job to be filled. Eighty-three Houston and Dallas employers were surveyed about their atti...

OBJECTIVE To model the impacts of the bicycle sharing system in London on the health of its users. DESIGN Health impact modelling and evaluation, using a stochastic simulation model. SETTING Central and inner London, England. DATA SOURCES Total population operational registration and usage data for the London cycle hire scheme (collected April 2011-March 2012), surveys of cycle hire users...

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The aim of this study was to determine whether the healthy worker effect and its component parts operate similarly for women and men. A cohort of workers from 14 synthetic vitreous fiber factories in seven countries, employed for at least 1 year between 1933 and 1977 and followed up to the early 1990s, included 375 deaths and 53,608 person-years among females and 2,568 deaths and 210,073 person...

use of leasing is one of main methods for modern companies and commercial unities to finance. leasing industry is scion in iran and requires pass of particular regulation for full of its legal gaps. present contract of iranian leasing companies is the simple hire-purchase. hire-purchase is a new topic that cause of today requirements at recent years, has been entered into legal arena. this meth...

Abstract The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the recruitment process is becoming a more common method for organisations to hire new employees. Despite this, there little consensus on whether AI should have widespread hiring process, and which contexts. In order bring clarity research findings, we propose HIRE (Human, (Artificial) Intelligence, Recruitment, Evaluation) framework with prim...

This paper analyzes whether it might be desir~ble for a firm to hire an overoptimistic manager to commit to a certain R&D strategy. I consider a Cournot model with an ex-ante R&D stage where firms can invest in cost reduction before product market competition takes place. I show that firms want to hire overoptimistic managers and argue that a manager's type may serve as a substitute for strateg...

The business people have not been exposed to all of this legal terminology. You tell them 'mentally ill' and their word, and I'm going to say it in Spanish, is 'loco', crazy. 'We don't hire a loco. We don't hire a crazy person.' Any kind-it doesn't matter if it is a manic-depressive-the word there is loco. 'We've got a loco crazy working with us.' It is sad but that is the way it is.