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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Lay-off."”.
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Three Essays in Personnel Economics
… corporate ""downsizing"" in which firms lay off workers---often well-educated workers with high tenure---to an extent far greater than in the past. Recent empirical studies have lent some support to this belief. I argue that this phenomenon can be understood in light of Lazear's theory. …
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Do improvements in environmental performance lead to job loss?
… costs to facilities, causing the facilities to lay-off their workers. However, there are several ways facilities can respond to regulatory and community pressures to increase environmental performance. The facility could reduce its emissions of toxic chemicals by preventing pollution at the …
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Process-structure-property relationships of resorbable desamino tyrosine derived polymers : effect of backbone chemistry and assembly on drug delivery
… biomaterial for a specific medical application plays an important role for the success of both application and the device. Since different applications require different properties, investigation and improvement of biomaterials with different properties are very important. L-tyrosine derived …
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Firms in Integrated Urban Models: Agglomeration Economies and the Dynamics of Employment Size Decisions
… structural model of firms’ job creation and lay-off decisions. It models the evolutionary trajectory of firm sizes rather than discrete jumps between presumed steady states. Firms are forward-looking rational agents, attempting to follow the employment size adjustment trajectory that …
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Developing talent management hybrid model for business growth and sustainability: the case of Malaysian theme park industry
… operating it. Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, Malaysia's theme parks faced much financial difficulty due to a lack of expertise and skilled talent, as many had been lay-off. A new business model is required to support the theme parks industry restarting and rebounce their business growth and …
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How can the NZ Diploma in Tourism and Travel pave the way for a regenerative future in tourism?
… many tourism businesses were compelled to lay off employees, and some even had to shut down. In addition, the number of students pursuing tertiary education in tourism has been declining for various reasons. One factor is the misconception that tourism is not a viable career option, despite …
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Testing the driving mechanisms for exhumation of the Greater Himalayan zone in eastern Bhutan: Implications of split-stream zircon and monazite geochronology
… for exhumation of the migmatitic Greater Himalayan zone (GHZ) in central and eastern Bhutan; and (2) the significance of the Kakhtang thrust (KT), an out of sequence thrust that divides the GHZ into upper (GHSu) and lower (GHZl) structural levels, zircon and monazite from twenty samples from …
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Essays on Models of the Labour Market with On-the-Job Search
… into better paying jobs until they get laid off at which time they start again to climb the job ladder. The measure relies on two sources of variation: (i) time-variation in job-finding rates and (ii) individual variation in the time since the last lay-off. We use the method to quantify the …
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Soccer injury surveillance and implementation of an injury prevention programme in Rwanda
… the physical and psychological demands on players, which subsequently increase the risk of injuries. There are limited prospective epidemiological studies in Africa, and studies that have been conducted to date often fail to incorporate standardised injury definitions or reporting methods. …
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A phenomenological case study to describe the ageism-induced anxiety of job seekers aged 50–83.
Age discrimination is a significant issue facing the workforce today. Many older job seekers find themselves in a predicament as they experience ageism-induced anxiety while seeking new employment. This phenomenological case study investigated the anxiety experienced by job seekers aged 50–83 …