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explained by differences in occupational employment risk, arising from two sources: (1) the diversification of occupational … define and estimate a measure of occupational employment risk (OER), which I relate to unemployment durations and wage losses …. My results indicate that unemployed workers in high employment risk occupations, as defined by the OER measure, have 5 …
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This paper examines the extent of consumption insurance against income risk by households in rural India. We estimate …
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consumer reactions to food system risk and the information desired to reduce such risk. Both studies highlight the need to …
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the two species, the potential health risk connected with their misidentification. GC and GC-MS analysis of the essential … a health risk and that the absence of the toxic alpha-thujone from T macrophyllum oil may in fact be regarded as a …
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the more conventional two-dimensional methodologyof assessing the relative risk and return attributes of various assets … relevance, the studymakes suggestions as to how time horizons could be incorporated into the risk returnassessments of various …
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An easy-to-use quantitative risk analysis model is developed for the private security industry in South Africa, which … concepts such as the probability, impact, cost of risk, degree of correction and the newly established human factor concept …, which cannot be seen in isolation. This latter concept plays a major part in the overall risk quantification process in …
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findings are that the understandable concerns of residential property owners at risk of flooding regarding long term loss of … Improved appreciation of the impact of claims and flood risk on the cost of insurance has also emerged. The insurance market …
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The relationships between risk and performance were tested employing within and between analyses at the level of … strategic groups in three different industries. As hypothesized, systematic risk did not exhibit a consistent relationship with … total risk with performance were in the hypothesized negative direction. These findings suggest that when risk …
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Methods for determining the form of utilities are needed for the implementation of utility theory in specific decisions. An important step forward was achieved when utility theorists characterized useful parametric families of utilities, and simplifying decompositions of multiattribute...
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Wildland fire is a major disturbance agent that shapes the forest health, productivity, and ecological diversity of eastern Oregon and Washington, USA. Fire behaviour and the effects of fire on flora, fauna, soils, air, and water are in large part driven by the availability of fuels to consume...
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