I study regulation of noncompete employment contracts, assessing the trade?off between restricting worker mobility and encouraging firm investment. develop an on?the?job search model in which firms workers sign dynamic wage contracts with clauses invest their workers' general human capital. Employers use to enforce buyout payments when depart, ultimately extracting rent from future employers. T...

BACKGROUND Among the working population, unemployed, temporary agency and expired fixed-term contract workers having psychological problems are a particularly vulnerable group, at risk for sickness absence and prolonged work disability. Studies investigating the effectiveness of return-to-work (RTW) interventions on these workers, who are without an employment contract, are scarce. Therefore, a...

This study aims to reveal the connection between psychological contract breaches and organizational silence. A is much more comprehensive than a written contract. Therefore, its impact on an organization higher. One of consequences this effect Three hundred health workers working in state hospital Turkey participated research. Data was gathered using survey method. The perceived scale has one d...

This special issue of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine looks back to the International Conference on silicosis that took place in Johannesburg 85 years ago [International Labour Office, 1930]. Held in 1930, this scientific gathering marked a turning point in the medical and economic history of pneumoconiosis. Moreover, this Conference, ground breaking in its own right, also laid the ...

This publication has been produced with the assistance of the European Union. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of ECRAN and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union. Since the mid-2000s, there has been a continuous increase in the number of labour conflicts in China. The 2010 waves of labour unrest are unprecedented, with more than 100 strike...

Imagine that you get such certain awesome experience and knowledge by only reading a book. How can? It seems to be greater when a book can be the best thing to discover. Books now will appear in printed and soft file collection. One of them is this book a social worker s reflections on power privilege and oppression guest editorial personal account. It is so usual with the printed books. Howeve...

BACKGROUND This study identifies the percentage of opioids prescribed for compensated workplace conditions in Manitoba, Canada and whether Workers Compensation Board (WCB) status is associated with higher prescription opioid doses. METHODS Opioid prescriptions for WCB recipients were linked with databases housed at the Manitoba Center for Health Policy. Duration of continuous opioid prescript...

BACKGROUND Agricultural workers especially in sugarcane plantations have a high risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Little is known about CKD among sugarcane plantation workers in Cameroon. This study sought to evaluate the prevalence and identify factors associated with CKD in sugarcane plantation workers in Cameroon. METHODS We conducted an analytic cross-sectional study including 204 adu...

Short-term contracts have been deployed rapidly across Europe since the mid 90s. The objective of this paper is to investigate both theoretically and empirically the effects of short-term contracts on individual welfare. By comparing the economy pre and post-reforms, we study the evolution of firms’ and workers’ dynamics, we identify the determinants behind the firms’ decision to hire short-ter...

Applications and Interviews: A Structural Analysis of Two-Sided Simultaneous Search A large part of the literature on frictional matching in the labor market assumes bilateral meetings between workers and firms. This ignores the frictions that arise when workers and firms meet in a multilateral way and cannot coordinate their application and hiring decisions. I analyze the magnitude of these fr...