For the fifth consecutive year, payments to beneficiaries in 1988 under workers’ compensation programs in the United States rose more than 10 percent from the previous year, reflecting increases in average wages and medical costs and in the number of employed workers, Workers’ compensation programs provided about $30.8 billion in cash and medical benefits to persons with job-related disabilitie...

1 Regional location factors, with measures of regional accessibility foremost among them, 2 exert a strong influence on urban property markets. While accessibility represents an important 3 regional-scale factor, more local influences such as proximity to urban highway links may 4 also positively or negatively influence the desirability of a location. In this paper, we use a 5 cross-section of ...

We explore the twin hypotheses (i) that high-performance incentives, worker ownership of assets, and worker freedom from direct controls are complementary instruments for motivating workers, and (ii) that such instruments can be expected to covary positively in cross-sectional data. We also relate our conclusions to empirical evidence, particularly that on the organization, compensation, and ma...

The indicator for employment by occupation comprises statistics on jobs classified according to major groups as defined in one or more versions of the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO). The most recent version of the International Standard of Occupation, ISCO-08, distinguishes 10 major groups: (1) Managers; (2) Professionals; (3) Technicians and associate professionals...

This paper presents large-sample evidence that firms consider labor unemployment risk when setting their resource adjustment policies. Prior studies find that costs rise more in response to sales increases than they fall in response to sales decreases. Anderson, Banker, and Janakiraman (2003) term this phenomenon “cost stickiness” and attribute it to managers’ deliberate adjustment to committed...

OBJECTIVE To describe a case study of community-based intervention, developed in a constructionist-emancipatory framework to control STD/AIDS. METHODS Descriptive study developed in the town of Manacapuru, in the state of Amazonas, from 1997 to 2004, focusing on procedures designed in collaboration with government agents, health professionals and the community. Data on the dynamics of prostit...

Childhood obesity disproportionately impacts disadvantaged communities, including Alaska Native children. In part, lack of access to fresh fruits and vegetables and over consumption of sugar sweetened beverages including energy drinks contribute to excessive weight gain in Alaska Native youth. This commentary reports the possibility of storeowners and workers partnering with community members t...

Costs for workers’ compensation benefits in California have increased sharply in recent years, following periods of decline and stability. California was already one of the most expensive states for total costs per injured worker and for a number of types of testing and treatment in the midto late 1990s. For example, a series of multi-state studies revealed that California has the second highes...

We use new offshoring data and new workforce micro-data with occupational classifications to investigate how an increase in the global supply of IT workers has affected the occupational composition of the US IT workforce. Our estimates suggest that when firms open offshore captive centers for IT employment, domestic IT employment skews towards occupations requiring more “personal” inputs, such ...

The paper presents an analysis of the impact of pension plan funding on workers’ saving and portfolio behaviour. It shows that the impact of pension plan funding and asset allocation on the economy’s technology choices depends upon the constraints facing worker’s in the capital market. The failure of equivalence propositions between defined benefit and defined contribution pension plans derives...