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and consequences of occupational safety and health (OSH). First, it synthesizes the available theoretical frameworks used … improve the health and safety of workers. …
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We study the impact on road safety of one-day massive speed limit monitoring operations (SLMO) accompanied by media …
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distance to school and their safety when commuting to school. In Zambia, we studied the impact of providing a bicycle to a …
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In this paper, we develop a theoretical model of worker investment in safety. Standard theory assumes that injury risk … individual safety investments that reduce the risk of injury. This results in a negative association between individual injury … safety. In line with our model predictions, we find a significant positive compensating wage differential (CWD) for nonfatal …
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In this paper, we develop a theoretical model of worker investment in safety. Standard theory assumes that injury risk … individual safety investments that reduce the risk of injury. This results in a negative association between individual injury … safety. In line with our model predictions, we find a significant positive compensating wage differential (CWD) for nonfatal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010666574
and consequences of occupational safety and health (OSH). First, it synthesizes the available theoretical frameworks used … improve the health and safety of workers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480916
This paper provides an analysis of the social consequences of people seeking to keep up with the Joneses. All individuals attempt to reach a higher rank than the Joneses, including the Joneses themselves. This attitude gives rise to an equilibrium in which all individuals have equal utilities...
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Macro analysis of the sources of income differences has produced very different results as to the importance of education. In this paper we investigate the roles of education and technology in explaining differences in firm level productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity...
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This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component … technical efficiency in the software intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 2003-2007. Firms are classified … differentials in their firm efficiency. The results show that the effect of software investment on firm efficiency is larger in high …
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-finding rate arise, which contrasts with results in an efficient search and matching economy. The efficient selection model …
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