In the health, safety, and environmental area, negotiated rulemaking, implementation, and compliance are proposed by their advocates as delivering two primary benefits: reduced rulemaking time and decreased litigation over a final agency rule. The experience to date, however, indicates that...

Aus dem Vorwort des Herausgebers: Die Forschungsgruppe »Gesundheitsrisiken und Präventionspolitik« untersucht Voraussetzungen, Wirkungen und professionelle sowie politische Konfigurationen der Herausbildung von Strategien der sozialen Prävention, vor allem im Hinblick aus die überwiegend...

Economists often analyze cross-sectional data to estimate the value people implicit place on attributes of goods using hedonic methods. Usually strong enough assumptions are made on the functional form of utility to point identify individuals' willingness-to-pay (WTP) for changes in attribute...

We examine theoretically and empirically the properties of the equilibrium wage function and its implications for policy. Our emphasis is on how the researcher approaches economic and policy questions when there is labor market heterogeneity leading to a set of wages. We focus on the application...

The existing literature concerning managing safety at workplace consists of papers either analysing the existing safety measures and standards or proposing measures for the enhancement of safety at workplace. On our paper, we propose a new managerial approach which is a solid management standard...

Legislation prohibiting age discrimination in the United States dates back to the decade of the 1960s, when along with the Equal Pay Act and the Civil Rights Act barring discrimination against women and minorities, the U.S. Congress passed the 1967 Age Discrimination in Employment Act. Many...