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Low healthcare quality has been found to predict the development of several illnesses in older adults, while the evidence on dementia is still lacking. This study assesses whether and to what extent experiencing low healthcare quality can be associated with developing dementia in people...
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"In a field experiment of age discrimination, pairs of men aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired, by email, about …
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an experiment with piece-rate incentives we find that the comparative static and the point predictions on effort …
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This paper uses a linked employer-employee dataset, the National Employment Survey, to examine the determinants of … organisational change and employee resistance to change and, specifically, to examine the influence of employee inflexibility on the …
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I examine the history of employee engagement and how it has been characterised by thinkers in sociology, psychology …, management and economics. I suggest that, while employers may choose to invest in employee engagement, there are alternative … management strategies that may be profit-maximising. I identify four elements of employee engagement – job 'flow', autonomous …
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appraisals and employees' presenteeism behavior. We use linked-employer-employee data (the German Linked Personnel Panel) and …
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largely ignored the effects of competition on effort provision once the competition is finished. In a laboratory experiment …
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Host countries have implemented permanent and guest-worker (GW) immigration programs in recent decades, while the temporary movement of service providers under Mode IV of the GATS is one of the issues being negotiated at the Doha Round of the WTO. Though decisions on what programs to adopt have...
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Census data show that since 1980 low-skill workers in the United States have been increasingly employed in the provision of non-tradeable time-intensive services - such as food preparation and cleaning - that can be broadly thought as substitutes of home production activities. Meanwhile the wage...
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Immigration continues to be on the forefront of the policy debate on both sides of the Atlantic. A number of reforms of permanent and guest-worker (GW) immigration programs are being considered, and the temporary movement of service providers under Mode IV (GATS) is being negotiated at the Doha...
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