The purpose of this note is to show that a firm operating in perfectly competitive markets but facing costs of adjustment to its sole variable input (labour) may well prefer to operate in a region of the production function in which the output elasticity of labour is greater than unity (i.e....

This paper provides an overview of the types of occupational violence commonly experienced in Australia and other western industrialised countries, incidence and severity patterns, and identifies the most "at risk" jobs.

In this paper, the authors contented that a multi-faceted and organisation-wide approach has to be adopted in the prevention of occupational violence on health care facilities.