This paper uses matched employer-employee data to examine the wage responses a mandatory social insurance reform program in Ethiopia. By relying on firm-level differences alternative pre-reform contributory schemes, we extent which employers shifted cost of workers terms lower wages. We find partial switching that varies by workers’ employment history. Wages recent hires treatment firms show de...

A recent study shows that, in social insects where workers suppress or 'police' the reproduction of nestmate workers, only a subset of workers act as police. This confirms that policing can serve a collective rather than a selfish interest.

This article reports on an exploratory study of hospice social workers' assessment and collaborative practices related to pain management; especially caregiver concerns about patient pain. A non-randomized national survey indicated that social workers assess the components of pain but are not able to devote as much attention to it as they feel is needed. While most reported assessing patient an...

the present study aimed to investigate the characteristics of occupational accidents and frequency and severity of work related accidents in the construction industry among iranian insured workers during the years 20072011.the iranian social security organization (isso) accident database containing 21,864 cases between the years 2007-2011 was applied in this study. in the next step, total accid...

Introduction Nephrology social workers are faced with myriad tasks and responsibilities that require the ability to delegate, prioritize, and multitask. While technology available to nephrology social workers, such as assessment tools, electronic medical records, and Internet applications and referral options have helped with task-centered social work practice, many social workers continue to l...

OBJECTIVE Partnerships between service users and social workers are complex in nature and can be driven by both personal and contextual circumstances. This study sought to explore the relationship between social workers' involvement in shared decision making with service users, their attitudes towards service users in poverty, moral standards and health and social care organizations' policies t...

This is, I believe, the first book to be devoted wholly to the subject of psychiatric social work. It is to be expected that it should come from America, where the experience of psychiatric social work extends over a period of thirty years and whose workers still are more articulate concerning the trends of their work and their essential roles than we are here in Britain. Much of the book is de...

This study uses a social influence lens to examine how key social referents influence individuals’ knowledge sharing behaviors within and outside their subsidiaries. Using a multiple-survey research design, our empirical study shows that unit managers and co-workers act as key social referents. Their knowledge sharing behaviors have significant influence over individual knowledge sharing within...