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The effect of back massage on labor pain , labor duration and childbirth experience in women during labor
" 본 연구는 분만진행 중 시행한 등 마사지가 분만통증과 분만경험에 미치는 효과를 규명하기 위한 유사실험연구이다. 연구대상은 경기도 S시에 소재한 A 대학병원 분만실에 분만을 목적으로 입원한 초산모로 실험군 30명과 대조군 30명에 임의로 배정하였으며, 자료수집기간은 2006년 6월 1일부터 2006년 12월 30일까지였다. 연구도구는 VAS와 Marut와 Mercer(1979)의 분만경험 측정도구를 이용하였으며, 실험군에게는 자궁경관 개대 4cm과 자궁경관 개대 10cm시 각각 5분 간격으로 3회 등마사지 시행직후 주관적 …
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Labor arbitrage : impact of offshoring in the U.S. labor market
… a contentious debate over its impact on the US labor market. Between 1983 and 2002, the United States economy lost 6 million jobs in manufacturing and income inequality increased sharply [Ebenstein, 2011]. Today due to the falling costs of transportation, coordination and communication this …
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Labor risk sharing
In this paper we aim to test the extent of labor risk sharing exists in thai village economies. Specifically we test the null hypothesis of full risk sharing at the village level. We outline a simple planner's problem that motivates our empirical specification. Our empirical specification consists …
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Three Essays on Labor
… to the literature on the decline of the labor share in the United States by proposing a channel through which increasing household debt can lead to the decline of the labor share. Specifically, workers with lower net worth have lower reservation wages. Thus, workers in debt spend less …
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Essays In Labor Economics
This dissertation consists of two papers. In the first paper, I study the employment and welfare effects of short-time work in Germany during the recession between 2008 and 2010. Short-time work is a government program that subsidizes part-time work during economic downturns. Using administrative …
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Essays in Labor Economics
<p>This dissertation presents two essays in labor economics. In the first essay, I study employer learning in a labor market with dynamic statistical discrimination on the basis of time-varying worker characteristics such as marital status. In the second essay, I explore the relationship between …
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Essays in Labor Economics
… consists of three chapters in the area of labor economics. My first chapter looks into the puzzling decline in U.S. women's labor force participation after 2000. The second chapter examines the cross-border spillover effects of increases in state minimum wages. The third chapter studies …
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Essays in Labor Economics
… studies two distinct issues in the field of labor economics: the labor supply of new mothers and firms' adjustments to changing labor costs. In both cases, I study the effect of labor market policies, both because they provide quasi-exogenous variation in otherwise endogenous variables of …
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Essays in Labor Economics
… consists of four chapters on the economics of labor markets. The f irst, joint with Fidan Ana Kurtulus, evaluates the employment effects of the Japanese trade shock of the 1960s-1980s, and whether they were racially disparate. Most importantly, we test whether differential occupational exposure …
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Labor legislation in India
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Business and Engineering Administration, 1953
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Essays in labor economics
I addressed three questions in Labor Economics, using experimental and quasi-experimental variation to determine causality. In the first chapter, I ask whether playing longer in the NFL increases mortality in retirement. I compared players with very short careers with those with long careers. I …
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Technology and labor markets
… structural change that has affected U.S. labor markets since the mid 90s-accelerated during the Great Recession and contributed to the long-lasting increase in unemployment since 2007. I show that the local labor markets that were more exposed to this structural change experienced worst …
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Essays in labor economics
… barriers on the relative demand for skilled labor. The Interstate Highway System was designed to connect major cities, to serve national defense, and to connect the US to Canada and Mexico. As an unintended consequence, many rural counties were connected to the highway system. I find that …
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Essays in labor economics
… consists of three chapters on topics in labor economics. In the first chapter, I present a model in which firms under-invest in hiring novice workers because they don't receive the full benefit of discovering novice talent. A firm must pay a cost to hire a novice worker. When it does, it …
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Labor Migration in China
… a more and more important position in the labor market. Therefore, from this dissertation, we try to explore different topics related to the migrants in China. This dissertation consists of three essays on who chooses to migrate, how networks affect migrants' outcomes, and what is the …
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Yoga as Work: Good Work? Bad Work? Emotional Labor, Aesthetic Labor, and Managing Sterotypes
… their performance of emotional and aesthetic labor, and how they perceive, manage, and navigate the stereotypes associated with yoga culture. Participants reported work conditions that involved low wages and a lack of traditional benefits. The performance of emotional labor was generally …
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Labor movement and labor policy under the American military government in Korea, 1945-1948
… AMG confronted strong Korean opposition to many labor-management policies. The use of naked force rather than effective administration was the major AMG strategic approach. AMG openly and actively aided former collaborators of the Japanese colonial government and rightist politicians while …
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Organizations, labor control processes, and emotional labor: the case of the retail grocery trade
The literature regarding organizations, labor control, and emotional labor suggests that the labor process within the service sector is fundamentally different from that of the manufacturing sector because the incorporation of a customer into the labor process necessitates an additional type of …
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