Pneumoconiosis is a notifiable industrial disease where a patient develops the disease, their doctor must notify their employer in writing with the patient's consent. The employer then is duty-bound to inform the local Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Pneumoconiosis is also a prescribed industrial disease. Financial compensation may be available where an individual is able to show they worked...

● We obtained a dataset with over 2 million user-reported salary datapoints from leading careers site Glassdoor ● Data is all from the United States over the years 2014 2016, across many industries, jobs, and employers ● Examples of key features: ○ Job title (e.g. “sales manager”) ○ Employee attributes (experience, etc.) ○ Employer name and attributes (total employee count, industry, etc.) ○ Em...

It is increasingly recognized that labour markets are pervasively imperfectly competitive, that there are rents to the employment relationship for both worker and employer. This chapter considers why it is sensible to think of labour markets as imperfectly competitive, reviews estimates on the size of rents, theories of and evidence on the distribution of rents between worker and employer, and ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) turns to a nontraditional mechanism to improve public health: employer-provided financial incentives for healthy behaviors. Critics raise questions about incentive programs' effectiveness, employer involvement, and potential discrimination. We support incentive program development despite these concerns. The ACA sets the stage for a broad-bas...

C. Huepe, L. S. Tuckerman, S. Métens, and M. E. Brachet Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA Laboratoire d’Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l’Ingénieur, Boîte Postale 133, 91403 Orsay, France Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée, Université Paris VII, Paris, Fr...

An employer has a special duty towards a one-eyed man (Paris v. Stepney Borough Council, I95i) but *does not have a special duty to a man with normal sight because employment could normally continue with good monocular vision. Clearly, a man with very defective vision in one eye needs the same consideration as a one-eyed man so we examined the level of visual acuity which should alert the emplo...

Pneumoconiosis is a notifiable industrial disease where a patient develops the disease, their doctor must notify their employer in writing with the patient's consent. The employer then is duty-bound to inform the local Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Pneumoconiosis is also a prescribed industrial disease. Financial compensation may be available where an individual is able to show they worked...