The medication industry is crucial to the prosperity of a nation and advancement because inextricable link among good health and, by consequently, worker efficiency. In addition supplying drugs other products necessary for healthy productive workforce, thriving pharmaceutical sector also creates jobs locals, boosts GDP, brings in both foreign currency import substitution. This study set out ans...

We address the impacts of regulations designed to reduce pesticide poisoning of farmers and farm laborers. Attention is concentrated on pre-harvest interval regulations that impose a time interval between pesticide application and harvest. The incidence of poisoning is determined by aggregate pesticide use, worker exposure, and toxicity. A dynamic, stochastic model of insect population growth i...

author reports a case of 67- years- old men referred to donga university hospital silicosis who had worked in tunnel drilling where presumably had been exposed to high concentration free silica for almost 20 yr. this report is considered the first in korea to the best of our knowledge since no cases on silicosis could be reported in this occupation in reviewing various literature sources in kor...

Dufour’s gland secretion may allow workerhoneybees to discriminate between queen-laid and work-er-laid eggs. To investigate this, we combined thechemical analysis of individually treated eggs with anegg removal bioassay. We partitioned queen Dufour’sgland into hydrocarbon and ester fractions. The bioassayshowed that worker-laid eggs treated with either wholegland ext...

Sebastian Butschek† and Jan Sauermann‡ †Sebastian Butschek is post-doctoral researcher at Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck. E-mail: sebastian.butschek{at}uibk.ac.at ‡Jan Sauermann associate professor the Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market Education Policy (IFAU). He also affiliated with Labor Economics (IZA) UCLS Uppsala University

This study addressed three questions that underlie the experiences of middle-aged working individuals: (1) What factors influence workers' quality of time spent at work, their feelings of competence as a worker, and their satisfaction with work? (2) What is the impact of subjective responses to work on self-esteem? and (3) What effect does gender have on subjective responses and self-esteem? Th...

This paper examines the relationship between firms’ wage offers and workers’ supply of effort using a three-period experiment. In equilibrium, firms will offer deferred compensation: first period productivity is positive and wages are zero, while third period productivity is zero and wages are positive. The experiment produces strong evidence that deferred compensation increases worker effort; ...