Britain has featured prominently in debates about unionism and productivity. This article suggests a recent revolution the productivity effect of British unionism. A thorough review extant evidence at various levels aggregation indicates that whatever broader cost to employee welfare well-being, hollowing erosion workplace under Thatcherism delivered one-off dividend. However, by turn millenniu...

Verbal, visuospatial and motor functions were studied in eight Parkinsonian patients both during levodopa stimulated and unstimulated state and in eight matched, untreated, healthy controls. Profound changes in patients' motor status were accompanied by relatively selective effects on delayed verbal memory, a function which was also most impaired compared with controls. With dopaminomimetic the...

OBJECTIVE To examine the associations between predisposing and need factors and receipt of mental health care and to examine age as a moderator of these associations. METHODS Participants (N=521) were surveyed as part of a larger study on health and adaptation. RESULTS Obtaining mental health care was predicted by more reliance on approach coping, and more depressive and medical symptoms. I...

Feedback processing is an important aspect of cognitive control and decision-making. Several studies have shown that heart rate slows following feedback that indicates incorrect performance or loss of money. The current study was the first to investigate (1) whether this slowing reflects an evaluation of the valence of the outcome or a system that indicates that the feedback contains informativ...

Historically, industrialization has been associated with falling relative returns to skills. This fact is at odds with most theories of industrialization, which tend to imply rising skill premia as natural concomitants to economic growth. This paper develops a simple model of economic demography to help solve this puzzle. Conjecturing that households wished to maximize both their levels of inco...

Background. Atherosclerotic plaque fracture and dissection of the arterial wall are frequent concomitants of the balloon angioplasty process. The composition and morphology of plaque within the vessel may be critical in determining the extent of plaque fracture and dissection during balloon angioplasty. To examine this potential association in the clinical setting, we studied patients with intr...

In addition to motor symptomatology, idiopathic Parkinson's disease is characterized by emotional dysfunction. Depression affects some 30 to 40 percent of Parkinson patients and other psychiatric co-morbidities include anxiety and apathy. Neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies of emotional dysfunction in Parkinson patients suggest abnormalities involving mesolimbic and mesocortical dopamin...