This paper uses the New Zealand Linked Income Supplement (LIS) to investigate the annual transitions in hourly earnings of working age individuals over the years 1997 to 2004. I first construct transition matrices for annual changes in weekly and hourly earnings, to enable comparison with previous analyses using New Zealand tax data. I then estimate the determinants of annual changes in hourly ...

This study analyzes real wage cyclicality for male full-time workers within employer-employee matches in Germany over the period 1984–2004. Five different wage measures are compared: the standard hourly wage rate; hourly wage earnings including overtime and bonus pay; the effective wage, which takes into account unpaid overtime; and monthly earnings, with and without additional pay. None of the...

UNLABELLED The aims of this study were to synthesize the evidence concerning the effect of hourly rounding programs on patient satisfaction with nursing care and discuss implications for nurse administrators. BACKGROUND Patient satisfaction is a key metric that influences both hospital ratings and reimbursement. Studies have suggested that purposeful nursing rounds can improve patient satisfa...

I consider the optimal pricing problem faced by a freelance worker on an on-demand labor platform. Service requests arriving while the worker is busy are lost forever. Thus an hourly (or per-unit-time in general) pricing strategy appropriately captures the opportunity cost of accepting a job. With the view of improving capacity utilization in the face of arrival uncertainty, the worker may be t...

(1) The cocainized eye tolerates subconjunctival injections of crystalline penicillin in doses of 100,000 untts at 12 hourly intervals and doses ranging from 200,000 to 500,000 units at 24 hourly intervals. (2) With doses of 500,000 units in 0 5 ml. of adrenalin solution 1 :1,000, at 24 hourly intervals, preliminary results in hypopyon ulcer are distinctly promising, both as to a satisfactory e...