Cross-generational and cross-dialectal variation in vowels among speakers of American English was examined in terms of vowel identification by listeners and vowel classification using pattern recognition. Listeners from Western North Carolina and Southeastern Wisconsin identified 12 vowel categories produced by 120 speakers stratified by age (old adults, young adults, and children), gender, and...

Recently, researchers have begun to investigate the role of negative encounters, emotions and feelings in tourism leisure activities. However, temporal effects encounters are still underexplored. This research consists two studies that were conducted longitudinally. Study one investigated overall visiting experience 50 multi-generational Chinese diaspora tourists; study interviewed 22 former pa...

Using a sample of 122 employed U.S. survey respondents, this study investigated if there were generational difference impacts on employees seeking jobs in response to COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Four generations sampled – Generation Z (Gen Z), Y (Millennials), X X), Baby Boomer (Boomers). Results showed that generation had significant effect search for new BLM ...

This paper examines the generational aspect of the current Medicare system and some stylized reforms. We find that the rates of return on Medicare for today’s workers are higher than those for Social Security and that the Medicare system is shifting a greater share of the burden on future workers than is Social Security. Nonetheless, the rates of return on Medicare, using the Medicare Trustees ...