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Showing 1 to 20 of 1632 for “"worker"”.
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Participation and worker satisfaction.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1971. M.C.P.
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Worker mobility and unemployment
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1986.
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Three Essays on Worker Displacement
… controlling for unobserved heterogeneity in worker quality. I find that while mean income falls by approximately 22% in the year of displacement, displacement does not affect all workers equally. The 5th percentile of the income distribution falls 45%. Much of the negative mean effect is …
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Wage Growth and Worker Observability
… based on limited<br />information about worker ability. An estimation of ability must be gleaned from observable factors such as a worker\'s education level, GPA and interview performance. While some firms conduct further testing, it remains that an accurate evaluation of worker ability …
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University involvement in adult worker education
… engagements in the field of adult worker education. In procedure, the study is a contextualized case presentation and analysis of a worker education project initiated at the University of Cape Town in 1981. The contexts of the case are presented through a historical assessment of …
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Worker profile: two functional assessment models
… This study develops two models of disabled worker behavior for use in the vocational assessment and job design process. In addition to providing the rehabilitation engineer a usable assessment of the client's abilities the Worker Profile should aid in the sharing of information among the …
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SOCIAL WORKER AWARNESS OF SEX TRAFFICKING VICTIMS
… and intervention. In a crisis setting, social workers play a fundamental role in assessing and providing treatment services to the victims of sex-trafficking that range in age, gender, and socioeconomic status. Victim identification presents a challenge for social workers because victims are a …
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Prostitute as sex worker : feminist theories contextualized
… Weinberg, the real lived experiences of sex workers are applied to three traditional feminist theories to test their validity. Limitations of the theories are identified by employing seven areas of examination. They are: (1) the history of the regulation of sexuality in western society; (2) …
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Vision-Based Construction Worker Task Productivity Monitoring
… in monitoring labour productivity of multiple workers at the same time accurately, unobtrusively, cost and time efficiently. This thesis proposes a framework to address this gap. It hypothesizes that task productivity of construction workers can be monitored through their trajectory data. The …
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Worker participation in the new South Africa
… industrial democracy. This means giving the workers a say in their daily working lives. This is by no means a new topic, in South Africa it has been debated in academic circles, on the shop floor and in boardrooms. However, the RDP adds new impetis to this topic. The focus of this paper is …
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Is compensation enough for the injured worker?
… financial compensation is provided to injured workers and, in the event of fatal injury, to their families, and all medical and rehabilitation services rendered to the injured worker are paid. While the intention of the Act is to support injured workers financially, the researcher observed a …
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The added worker effect in South Africa
… 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 South Africa. It also considers …
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A survey of worker participation in Bophuthatswana
Worker participation and the acceptance thereof is well established in first world countries. In third world countries it is still a relatively new concept which tends to rely on legislation for its existence and continuing function. Where a free-market economy is in place, labour market forces and …
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Worker participation within the human service context
This study analyses participation of workers within two human service organisations, within the education field in the Western Cape. It also examines the reasons, degrees and levels of participation as well as the impact it has on individual workers and the organisations as a whole. The case study …
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Essays on Worker Productivity and Labor Supply
… exploring factors that affect developing country workers’ productivity, well-being and labor supply. The first essay explores how workers labor supply is affected by transitory income shocks. In neoclassical models, transitory income shocks should not affect labor supply. This prediction has often …
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Personal Financial Wellness and Worker Job Productivity
… between personal financial wellness and worker job productivity. The research questions were (1) what is the personal financial wellness profile?; (2) how does the personal financial wellness profile differ by the demographic characteristics?; (3) what is the relationship between …
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Worker profile: learning patterns for motor tasks
… Time Standard (PTS) to model a specific worker precisely and efficiently. The Worker Profile uses the results of a half hour of testing to algebraically modify each of the work elements in the PTS. The modified system can then be used with any job that has been described in the PTS. …
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