Commentary
People who do shift work should be vigilant about their risk factors. At the same time, their employers—and the government—can do more to offer education and targeted screening programs to prevent or forestall disease, writes Christian van Stolk.
Journal Article
This report focuses on management of psychosocial risks at work, exploring how practices vary across Europe depending on, for example, establishment size, location and sector.
Journal Article
This report focuses on management of psychosocial risks at work, exploring how practices vary across Europe depending on, for example, establishment size, location and sector.
Report
The results of a nationwide survey show how understanding modern recruits can help police and sheriff's departments refine their recruitment practices and develop a workforce well suited to community-oriented policing.
Report
The report presents the findings of a study undertaken for the English Department of Health in 2009 on whether health workplace interventions could improve the levels of health and wellbeing in British workplaces and the NHS in England.
Report
Describes an approach to develop systematic and effective career strategies for U.S. Air Force officers.
Journal Article
Young people making the transition from school to work in the twenty-first century in the United States and other developed economies can be expected to face a very different world of work than their parents' generation.
News Release
Non-fatal injuries to police officers, firefighters, emergency medical technicians and other public safety workers are common, but little is done to track these incidents in order to improve prevention efforts.
Research Brief
This research brief describes the skills senior leaders can leverage to adapt quickly to new working environments.
Journal Article
Working parents are more able to care for their chronically ill children when given greater access to federal and employer-provided time off from their jobs.
Journal Article
In contrast to the believed similarity in their health outcomes, workers in different Western countries report very different rates of work disability. Using new data from the United States and the Netherlands, we offer a partial resolution to this paradox. We find that observed differences in reported work disability largely stem from the fact that Dutch respondents have a lower threshold in reporting whether they have a work disability than American respondents. For those who do not suffer from pain, work disability is similar in both countries once thresholds are the same. For respondents with pain, however, a significant difference remains.
Commentary
Published commentary by RAND staff: Globalization's Unequal Discontents, in Washingtonpost.com.
Commentary
Published commentary by RAND staff: America's Muslim Resource, in United Press International.
Report
Drawing on RAND's extensive work in military personnel management, this paper identifies potential planning and analysis tools that might be adapted to address the some of the recruiting and retention challenges faced by law enforcement agencies.
Journal Article
Welfare programs confront policy makers with tradeoffs among conflicting objectives.
Journal Article
In response to proposed federal legislation, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education limited resident work-hours in July 2003.
Journal Article
The question of how human well-being is affected by business cycles is an age-old focus in economics.
Commentary
Published commentary by RAND staff.
Journal Article
Depressed persons who work and who do not work differed across sociodemographic, health, functional, and disability factors.
Journal Article
Integrating New Tools into Information Work: Technology Transfer as a Framework for Understanding Success
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