Volume 2(2), 2014
MISCLASSIFICATION: WORKERS IN THE BORDERLAND
ABSTRACT. Employers wrongly label their employees as independent contractors – a phenomenon known as misclassification – in many industries throughout the United States. Port trucking, package delivery, and construction are three cases in point. Misclassification deprives workers of the protection o..
THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP
ABSTRACT. I am specifically interested in how previous research investigated the value of transformational leadership, behavioral dimensions of transformational leadership, and the underlying processes through which transformational leadership may influence follower organizational identification. Th..
UNEMPLOYMENT DYNAMICS IN THE U.S.
ABSTRACT. The purpose of this article is to gain a deeper understanding of the tremendous rise of unemployment in the U.S., the changing composition of the labor force towards more educated workers, and cyclical declines in employment. The theory that I shall seek to elaborate here puts considerable..
IMPROVEMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH PERFORMANCE BASED ON COST-EFFECTIVENESS
ABSTRACT. Scholarship about economic evaluations of public health, the relative value of public health outcomes, and the dynamics of relevant public health behaviors has increased and consolidated, especially in recent years. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact, effectiveness, and eco..
THE EFFECT OF SEARCH EFFORT ON THE TRANSITION FROM UNEMPLOYMENT TO WORK: EVIDENCE FROM A CROSS-SECTION OF GHANAIAN FORMAL SECTOR WORKERS
ABSTRACT. While the role of search effort in the transition from unemployment to employment is not contentious, there is paucity of empirical evidence on the nexus between search effort and the duration of unemployment, especially in developing countries. Hence, this paper focuses on the time period..
FROM MARKETING TO SEMIOTICS: THE WAY TO MARKETING SEMIOTICS
ABSTRACT. Starting with the 1960s, among the schools of marketing thought the studies related to consumer behavior have begun to come into focus. But as consumer behavior refers to the study of how someone acquires products, the notion of meaning becomes pivotal. From here it was not only a step to ..
THE ECONOMICS OF HEALTH CARE SYSTEM REFORM
ABSTRACT. Research on challenges of improving the performance of health systems, operational efficiency in public resource allocation in health, and the potential trade-offs between health care reform objectives has yielded fairly consistent findings over the past decade. Applying new conceptual and..