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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"job loss"”.
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Age differences in coping with job loss
… of coping with the stressor of involuntary job loss from an aging perspective. Based on previous research, it was expected that the process of coping with involuntary job loss would differ across the life-span as older workers face unique additional stressors. This study tested: (1) whether …
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The grief process and reaction to job loss
… assess the applicability of the grief process to job loss. A pilot study of ten unemployed men was used to establish the structured interview and an appropriate form of content analysis, based on the components of grief derived from studies of bereavement. Other measures assessed the degree of …
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Do improvements in environmental performance lead to job loss?
One dominant argument against environmental regulations is that the regulations will increase 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 …
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The dynamics of manufacturing job loss : a case study of Rhode Island, 1978-83
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1987.
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Narrative Art Therapy with Career Counseling to Promote Insight and Decsion-making After Experienceing Job Loss
<p>This research project was designed to study the effects of narrative art therapy combined with career counseling as it relates to decision-making, degrees of stress, anxiety, depression and hopelessness, as well as the impact on personal insight and discovery about one's career. There has been …
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Essays in Empirical Labor Economics
… Hallock) investigates the relationship between job loss announcements and top-management changes in U.S. firms using detailed data on each published job loss announcement in a broad set of large firms from 1970 to 1995. We begin by confirming the results of previous authors concerning the …
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Understanding the motives, behaviors, and experiences of low wage and low skill individuals who have experienced job loss, on deciding whether to seek career services through the State of Illinois CareerOneStop in Champaign County
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-04-06 without embargo terms
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Essays on Preschool Education, Family Economic Circumstances, and Child Outcomes
… second chapter analyzes the effects of parental job loss on children's health. The findings show that a father's job loss is detrimental to children's mental health, and among children in low socioeconomic status families it is also associated with worse physical health. By contrast, the results …
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The added worker effect in South Africa
… supply increases in response to their partners job loss is known as the added worker effect (addWE). This paper investigates how married women’s labour force participation, probability of employment and average working hours respond to the recently unanticipated job loss of their partners in …
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One Size Does Not Fit All: Counseling Paths to Restore Financial Well-being
… Paula K. Darling Abstract For most people, a job loss has psychological impact on self-confidence and the loss of important social anchors. This affects their sense of well-being and their ability to cope with these psychological as well as associated financial challenges. People vary in how …
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Essays on Unemployment
… shape individual labor force transitions after job loss. Using mixed methods, I explore how people navigate the aftermath of job loss in the U.S. and the variables that influence this process. In the first essay, I use in-depth interviews with a diverse group of women in Greater Boston to …
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COVID-19 and labour market inequality in South Africa
… working hours. I estimate substantial aggregate job loss accompanied by a surge in inactivity, and document significant regressivity in both the short- and longer-terms, thus reinforcing pre-existing inequalities on both the extensive and intensive margins. I reveal the principal roles of two key …
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Women's Response to Spousal Unemployment: Economic, Labor Force, and Family Constraints
… women's choices in response to their husbands' job loss. Access to a unique and under-studied sample of women married to unemployed working-class men necessitates the use of grounded theory research techniques that allow me to "give voice" to working-class women.
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Quantifying the Effects of a Constricted Temporal Window in Reinforcer Pathology
… Specifically, engaging with stories of job loss can constrict the temporal window. The third study shows that engaging with job loss can specifically constrict the temporal window and increase the value of fast food among obese individuals. The final study shows that a similar hardship …
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Reintegration into Civilian Life among Returning Veterans: The Roles of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Stressor Exposure
… and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) veterans. Schlossberg’s Transition Model was used as the conceptual framework to support the study on seven outcomes in four functional domains: (a) interpersonal functioning in terms of post-deployment social support, (b) vocational functioning in terms of …
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Shaping economic inequality: the starring role of the household in the 'welfare triad'
… this thesis investigates the consequences of job loss across different social strata. The idea is that social risks may strengthen or weaken social stratification if risks, and their consequences, are unevenly distributed across social groups. Finally, these aspects are investigated for two …
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Essays in Health and Labor Economics
… adopted by U.S. state courts on employment and job loss for workers with different ethnicity, race, and education level.
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The Household Survival Strategies of Manufacturing Workers Displaced in Henry County and the New River Valley, 1990-2010
… and their households been affected by this loss of manufacturing jobs? And third, what survival strategies have displaced workers and their households employed as a result of being displaced? In carrying out this research, I engage with four theoretical discussions: (1) deindustrialization …
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The Economic, Career, Social and Personal Effects of Reduction in Force (RIF) in Secondary Teachers Terminated from Three Iowa School Districts, 1981-1983
… status of this group and the adjustments made to job loss. Procedures. A questionnaire was designed to secure information of the effects on secondary teachers riffed (1980-1983) from three Iowa multi-high school districts. Comparisons of data were reported in numbers and percentages, grouped and …
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The ins and outs of keeping US service jobs at work
… but instead identifying trends which lead to job growth or job loss. Like manufacturing jobs that have been lost to offshore locations or productivity gains, so too are service jobs at risk. Offshoring - the outsourcing of business functions overseas - and automation have the same effect of …
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