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Employment and the Functioning of the Labor Market
2018The focus of this chapter is on Tunisia’s labor and education institutions and regulations, and their impact on market performance. The chapter examines how the regulations affect the cost of formal employment, including the ease of hiring and firing, and the mismatch between supply and demand of educated labor.
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Labor's View of the Function of the Church
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1922IT is my purpose in this article to try to state what the more radical and aggressive groups of workers in this country think about the Church and the function it fulfills and might fulfill in society. There is no doubt that among these groups one may find some positive hostility and bitterness toward the churches.
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Labor, Resources, and the Production Function
2017This chapter introduces a more-or-less “classical” production function, a widely used tool for analyzing economic behavior in the long run. The version presented here is conventional in its derivation of labor demand. However, it is atypical in that, following the logic of Chaps. 1 and 2, it includes resources along with the usual productive factors of
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The Management of Functional Dystocia in the First Stage of Labor
Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1987To summarize: Functional dystocia is easily diagnosed in laboring patients by lack of cervical dilatation for 2 hours in association with weak uterine contractions. If the membranes are intact, amniotomy should be performed. If cervical dilatation at a rate of at least 1 cm/h does not occur promptly, oxytocin should be begun.
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Loss Aversion and Adaptation in the Labor Market: Empirical Indifference Functions and Labor Supply
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1996This paper presents empirically determined indifference functions for income and leisure which exhibit the phenomena of loss aversion and a utility reference point determined by adaptation, as expounded by Kahneman and Tversky and others. Data for this study were gathered in original surveys of seven diverse labor markets. The indifference functions of
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Estimating Labor-Supply Functions [PDF]
, 1997 Orley Ashenfelter, James Heckman
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The Keynesian Aggregate Supply Function for Labor
Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1972Abstract This article formulates a class of aggregate supply functions of labor which is an approximation to the backward “L” shaped supply curve originally proposed by J.M. Keynes. Forty-eight members of this class are estimated using first British and then U.S. data.
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Recruiting Patterns and the Functioning of Labor Markets
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1954This study of employer hiring practices is one of a series of analyses of the San Francisco Bay Area labor market undertaken by the Institute of Industrial Relations of the University of California, Berkeley. (Author's abstract courtesy EBSCO.)
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Development of a Railroad Labor Cost Function
1979Presented at the 20th Transportation Research Forum meeting, Oct.
Perritt, Henry H., Perritt, Henry H.
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