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Possible Effects of the Financial Crisis on Managers’ Attitudes to Older Workers

open access: yesNordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012
The article explores the possible short-term effects of the financial crisis in Norway on cognitive, affective, and behavioral components of managers’ attitudes to older workers.
Per Erik Solem
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Epidemiology of parasitic protozoan infections in Soay sheep (Ovis aries L.) on St Kilda [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The feral Soay sheep (Ovis aries L.) population on Hirta, St Kilda, is host to a diverse component parasite community, but previous parasitological studies of the population have only focussed on the metazoan species.
Craig, B. H.   +3 more
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Managers’ Beliefs about Measures to Retain Senior Workforce

open access: yesNordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012
This paper aims to describe and explain the beliefs of public sector managers regarding measures to promote active ageing within organizations and how these beliefs can relate to their own attitudes, age, gender, organizational roles, and structures ...
Reidar J. Mykletun   +2 more
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Employer Brand Opens up for a Gender Process Model

open access: yesNordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2011
Regardless of a long tradition of legislation, policymaking and practical achievements, the issues ofgender equality and of the segregated labor market still remain a matter of concern in Sweden.
Hans Lundkvist
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Trade Union Responses to Transnational Labour Mobility in the Finnish-Estonian Context

open access: yesNordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2013
This article examines trade union strategies in relation to labor migration in Estonia and Finland, drawing on face-to-face interviews with trade unionists and official union statements.
Rolle Alho
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Manufacturing Dissent: Labor Conflict, Care Work, and the Politicization of Caring

open access: yesNordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014
The article analyzes the phenomenon of “politicization of caring,” observed in studies of nurse labor conflict, in the context of a small-scale episode of conflict at a Swedish hospital ward.
Magnus Granberg
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From Emancipation through Employment to Emancipation through Entrepreneurship: An Analysis of the Special Labor Market Initiatives (BRYT) and Tax Deduction for Domestic Services (RUT) in Sweden

open access: yesNordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015
Debates on gender equality policy in Sweden assume that women’s labor market participation is central to gender equality and should be promoted via special initiatives and programs.
Elin Kvist, Johanna Overud
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Age Management in Danish Companies: What, How, and How Much?

open access: yesNordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012
This article investigates Danish employers’ behavior in the area of active aging, which is made topical by demographic aging. It describes age management practices and explains why some companies are more prone to employ age management than others.
Per H. Jensen, Rasmus Juul Møberg
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Pathogen Dynamics across the Diversity of Aging [PDF]

open access: yesThe American Naturalist, 2021
AbstractReproduction, mortality, and immune function often change with age but do not invariably deteriorate. Across the tree of life, there is extensive variation in age-specific performance and changes to key life-history traits. These changes occur on a spectrum from classic senescence, where performance declines with age, to juvenescence, where ...
Clark, Jess   +2 more
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Potential inbreeding in a small population of a mass flowering species, Xanthorrhoea johnsonii (Xanthorrhoaceae): is your mother my father? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Xanthorrhoea johnsonii is a long lived slow growing perennial understorey species, that produces a large quantity of passively dispersed seed every 3-5 years. Reproductive maturity is not reached until 20-30 years of age.
King, Rachel, Zalucki, Jacinta M.
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