The first chapter of this dissertation integrates the existing literatures on displacement and health by examining the … modeled to capture spousal reactions to these shocks. Multiple indicators of health from the Survey of Income and Program … composition of the labor force impact productivity by exploiting measures of human capital, or skill. The BLS has previously …

not delivered productivity gains and have had a negative effect on managers' well-being. The effects of change were … perceived differently by directors and other managers. Despite continuous cost reduction, productivity in the UK remains below … increased productivity in the UK. …

of air pollution on health and mortality. There is also some evidence that air ... …

The ageing of the world population is an ineluctable process with major economicimplications. Whereas there is … structure. Ageing tends to benefit bond markets relative to equitymarkets, while depressing private saving and external balances … of ageing havewide-ranging implications for policymakers and market participants. …

Artículo de revista ; Population ageing is a major global challenge. The Latin American economies have a younger … from the adaptation of social welfare systems to population ageing. …

training would all be conducive to a lower decline in productivity and a higher degree of employability of older workers. This … is particularly important in Spain’s current demographic context of a gradually ageing population. …

The health industry has acquired a reputation as lagging in the use of information technology (IT). Therefore, this … study has been undertaken to assess state health's use of IT and then to assess the causal factors of the differing usage … rate, if any. The state health industry was compared to the banking industry as a benchmark, on the basis that the banking …

Although theories in both evolutionary biology and economics predict that an individual’s health should be associated … collecting detailed measures of health, time preference, and expected longevity on a sample of individuals in townships around … preference and health, in an area of the world with high mortality and morbidity. Interestingly, we find that both physical …

related to health status across middle/low and high-income countries. The dependent variable is self-assessed health (SAH …. Correcting for national differences in health reporting behavior, individual absolute income is found to be positively related to … individual health. Furthermore, in the high-income sample, there is strong evidence that average income within a peer-age group …

educational and health aspirations. Like earlier studies we find that income aspirations increase with both the individual’s own … education. However, with respect to health, we find that people aspire to more rather than less health when surrounded by others …