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Impact of the recession on age management policies - Case Study : Vienna General Hospital (AKH Wien), Austria
Cacace, Mirella - 2012
Vienna General Hospital sees the importance of the tackling the issue of ageing in terms of organisational strategy … at Vienna General Hospital is responsible for the management of a distinctive skill mix. According to HR, amongst the … personnel employed by the hospital, age management of qualified nursing staff is of particular concern. …
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The future for employment in social care in Europe : Conference ; Helsinki, 2-3 October 2006report
Munday, Brian - 2006
This is a report of a conference held in Helsinki 2-3 October 2006, organised by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, in cooperation with the National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health (STAKES) and the Finnish Institute of...
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Residential care sector : working conditions and job quality
Europäische Stiftung zur Verbesserung der Lebens- und … - 2014
This report gives an overview of working conditions, job quality, workers’ health and job sustainability in the residential care sector (NACE 87).1 The findings are based mostly on the fifth European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS), which gathers data on working conditions and the quality of...
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Clinical trials in developing countries : How to protect people against unethical practices ?
Schipper, Irene - 2009
European legislation regulating the marketing authorisation of medical products states that results from clinical trials that do not meet the ethical requirements of Good Clinical Practice, cannot legally be used by an applicant to justify its application, irrespective of whether the trial was...
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Information acquisition and decision making in committees
Gerling, Kerstin; Grüner, Hans Peter; Kiel, Alexandra; … - 2003
This is a survey on the recent game theoretic literature on committee decision making. We consider theoretical work on the role of (i) strategic voting, (ii) costly information acquisition, (iii) conflicting interests, and (iv) communication in committees. Moreover, we review recent experimental...
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Government deficits, wealth effects and the price level in an optimizing model
Annicchiarico, Barbara - 2003
This paper investigates the in inflationary effects of fscal policy in an optimizing general equilibrium monetary model with capital accumulation, exible prices and wealth effects. The model is calibrated to Euro Area quarterly data. Simulation results show that government defcits, high debt...
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Implementing optimal control in cointegrated I(1) structural VAR models
Monti, Francesca V. - 2003
This paper examines the feasibility of implementing Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) Control in structural cointegrated VAR models and sheds some light on the two major problems generated by such implementation. The first aspect to be taken into account is the effect of the presence of unit roots...
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Monetary and fiscal interactions in open economies
Lombardo, Giovanni; Sutherland, Alan - 2003
A two-country sticky-price model is used to analyse the interactions between fiscal and monetary policy. The role of an u0091activistu0092 fiscal policy as a stabilisation tool is considered and a measure of the welfare gains from international fiscal policy cooperation is derived. It is found...
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Inflation persistence and robust monetary policy design
Coenen, Günter - 2003
This paper investigates the performance of optimised interest rate rules when there is uncertainty about a key determinant of the monetary transmission mechanism, namely the degree of persistence characterising the inflation process. The paper focuses on the euro area and utilises two variants of...
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Inflation, factor substitution and growth
Klump, Rainer - 2003
already under relatively modest rates. Most contributions to monetary growth theory, however, have difficulties in explaining …
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