To what extent do firms pass through idiosyncratic shocks to their workers? In this paper, we investigate question focusing on passthrough income for workers that stay in the firm and employment stability. We take an empirical approach use matched employer-employee data from Denmark, three different measures of performance (sales, value added, added per worker), two (earnings hourly wages). dis...

BACKGROUND This study identifies the percentage of opioids prescribed for compensated workplace conditions in Manitoba, Canada and whether Workers Compensation Board (WCB) status is associated with higher prescription opioid doses. METHODS Opioid prescriptions for WCB recipients were linked with databases housed at the Manitoba Center for Health Policy. Duration of continuous opioid prescript...

Video is marking the next evolution of business collaboration. Executive communications to employees through IPTV, on-demand playback of sales meetings or training sessions, and videoconferencing are just a few of the rich-media applications that are helping organizations improve the effectiveness of communications across distributed groups. These applications enable faster and more trusted col...

During the latter period of the nineteenth century, developing industrial corporations attempted to bring order to their operations. These rapidly expanding companies, such as Pullman Palace Car, H.J. Heinz, Westinghouse, and Sherwin-Williams, saw the need to organize production, sales, and service in the competitive market place. They also showed some initial concern about employees’ disconten...

II. Legal Doctrines A. Restoration of the Equivalence Broken by Partial or Defective Performance 1. Damages for Vendor’s Breach in Land Sales and Price Abatement Ancillary to Specific Performance 2. Rent Abatement for Breach of Warranty of Habitability and other Obligations 3. Price Reduction under the CISG 4. Monetary Restitution for Non-Monetary Performance in Divisible Contracts B. Restorati...

This exercise sets up inter-linked labor and goods markets in a classroom macroeconomy. Students with worker roles are endowed with labor that can be consumed or sold to firms, who post wages, purchase labor, and produce goods that can either be consumed or sold to workers. The money from sales is used by firms to purchase labor in the next period. Complicated record keeping is avoided by using...

BACKGROUND Program effectiveness is influenced by the degree and quality of implementation, thus requiring careful examination of delivery processes and how the program is or is not being implemented as intended. Implementation fidelity is defined by adherence to intervention design, exposure or dose, quality of delivery, and participant responsiveness. As part of the process evaluation (PE) of...

This study was undertaken to assess the socio-economic impact of producing export oriented agricultural crops on the livelihoods of the farmers, in eastern Ethiopia. A random sample of 305 farmers was studied. Comparisons were made between producers and non-producers using the Ztest and regression analysis. It was found that producers of export oriented crops are better off than the non-produce...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to examine the predictive relationships between employee health risk factors (HRFs) and workers' compensation (WC) claim occurrence and costs. METHODS Logistic regression and generalised linear models were used to estimate the predictive association between HRFs and claim occurrence and cost among a cohort of 16 926 employees from 314 large, medium an...

OBJECTIVES The aim was to investigate the variation in risk of breast cancer between occupational groups with a focus on white-collar and blue-collar workers and to investigate to what extent the differences were explained by risk factors related to reproduction and lifestyle. METHODS Between 1991 and 1996, 14 119 women born between 1923 and 1950 and residents of Malmö, Sweden, were included ...