Recent developments in international economics have stressed the importance of firm heterogeneity in explaining trade patterns and the effects of increased globalisation. This has coincided with the increasing use of datasets which link information on individual workers to the firms in which...

Topics: - Safety of machinery: safety concepts and principles, design rules and strategy, maintenance of machinery - Risk assessment: Hazard identification, historic experience, mitigation, risk estimation and evaluation, assessment methodology, comparison of methodologies - Practical...

Proposed themes include: - The risks inherent in DC schemes. - Methods to share risk, including inter- and intra-generational risk-sharing and other ways to reduce the potential dispersion of retirement outcomes for members - Theory and evidence of risk sharing in which there is no scheme...

The programme consists of lectures presented by staff members, presentations by doctoral students and discussion on their research plans.

An international academic conference on any area of work or occupational psychology, and related areas such as organizational behaviour, human resource management or social psychology. The conference will be concerned with frontier issues in work, well-being and performance and inputs that open...

Topics: - Within-person processes that affect well-being - Proactivity, adaptability and organizational citizenship in the workplace - Strategic HRM and its effects on performance - Selection, skills and development for the global economy - New forms of work organization - Employee relations and...

Topics: - What is full employment? How is it defined and measured? How close are we to achieving full employment? What are the challenges that remain? - The increasing problem of underemployment and marginal workers. - The increased precariousness of work. - Has Work Choices worked? - wages,...