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Periodismo Del Futuro, Leonard Witt, Francisco Seoane Pérez Sep 2005

Periodismo Del Futuro, Leonard Witt, Francisco Seoane Pérez

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Workplace Organization, Labor Process Control And Occupational Health. Ph. D. Dissertation, Linda Treiber Aug 2005

Workplace Organization, Labor Process Control And Occupational Health. Ph. D. Dissertation, Linda Treiber

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The purpose of this research is to understand the complex relationships between working conditions and occupational health. The research draws from labor process theory that generally views worker control over the labor process as essential to non-alienated labor and from epidemiologic models of host, agent/exposure, and environment. Using General Social Survey 2002 cross sectional data, I investigate the effects of standard epidemiologic factors and worker labor process control factors in multivariate models to predict the dependent variables of workplace injury, persistent pain, exhaustion, and general health status. I suggest that labor process autonomy, social cohesion and skill utilization generally have …


Farmers And Social Security Reform, James L. Novak, Paul Gentle, Patricia Duffy, Alison Keefe Jun 2005

Farmers And Social Security Reform, James L. Novak, Paul Gentle, Patricia Duffy, Alison Keefe

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Deals with the possible effect of the Social Security system reform on farmers. Background on the social security system being implemented; Summary of proposals for reform; Possible cost of implementing the personal savings account system.


Is Exchange Risk Priced Beyond Intertemporal Risk?, Ines Chaieb, Stefano Mazzoto, Oumar Sy Mar 2005

Is Exchange Risk Priced Beyond Intertemporal Risk?, Ines Chaieb, Stefano Mazzoto, Oumar Sy

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Recent conditional tests show that exchange risk is priced in integrated international markets. However, these results are typically obtained assuming that intertemporal risk does not matter. We test an intertemporal international asset-pricing model where the investment opportunity set is dynamic. Using a conditional orthogonalization approach, we investigate whether the exchange risk is priced once the market and intertemporal risks are fully taken into account. We find that, in addition to the market and intertemporal risks, the exchange risk is an important determinant of risk premium. We also find that the intertemporal risk, which is often overlooked in the literature, is …