Ageing populations in developed countries have placed increasing demands on health care services and drawn attention to how age is related to medical expenditure. The effect of ageing on health involves a mixture of biological and social factors that ideally requires an interdisciplinary...

The author reviews some specific ways in which human resource professionals can assist management in managing other salaried professionals.

Interest in the effects of labor migration on the receiving economy has not produced ample insights regarding its long-run consequences. Important as it may be, the impact on wages and employment, especially on groups whose labor market characteristics are similar to those of migrants, could be...

This paper is motivated by an attempt to account for the empirical finding that quite often migrants outperform the native-born. The underlying idea is that how migrants fare, absolutely and relative to the indigenous population, depends on group attributes ratber than on individual abilities...

[Introduction:] Whatever workers may take with them when they migrate, they cannot possibly transfer their home country's information structure. Consequently, foreign-country employers are not as well informed about home-country workers as are home-country employers. Typically, migration runs...