Individual preferences for ‘ageing in place’ (AIP) old age are not well understood. One way to test the strength of AIP preference is investigate effect health shocks on residential mobility smaller size or value dwellings, which we refer as 'housing downsizing'. This paper exploits more than a decade worth longitudinal data study older people's housing decisions across wide range European coun...

South Korea became an aging society in 2000 and will become a super-aged nation 2026. The extended life expectancy earlier retirement make workers’ preparation for more difficult, that hardship might lead to poorer living conditions after retirement. As annuity payments are, general, not enough retirees maintain their previous standard of retirement, retired households would have liquidate fina...

This paper develops an economic model to determine the optimal degree of outsourcing by a firm and explain conditions for complete, partial, or no outsourcing decisions. It is found that for outsourcing to be profitable, it is not necessary, although sufficient, that a vendor be more efficient than the original producer. Moreover, corporate downsizing and outsourcing appear to be complementary ...

research interests include human resource aspects of the management of change including trust and downsizing, and research methods. has also been translated into Chinese, Dutch and Russian. He has co-authored a range of other books including Strategic Human Resource Management (2007, FT Prentice Hall) and Dealing with Statistics: What you need to know (2008, Open University Press McGraw Hill).

In this brief overview of the stellar populations of galaxies in clusters I highlight some of the most recent results, including the downsizing of the k+a population and the star formation–local density relation. I conclude discussing some open questions regarding the interpretation of the observational results, and speculating on the current meaning of the words “primordial” and “environmental”.

Media Slant Against Foreign Owners: Downsizing We establish the existence of strong media slant against foreign owners. Using a unique data set from nation-wide distributed quality newspapers in Germany, we find that a foreign firm that downsizes in Germany receives almost twice as much attention than a domestic firm. This quantitative slant is accompanied by qualitative slant; newspapers repor...

Data management functionality is not only needed in large scale database management systems, but also in embedded systems that are the predominant form of computing systems today. However, resource restrictions and heterogeneity of hardware complicate the development of data management solutions. In current practice, this typically leads to redevelopment of data management solutions since exist...