The study seeks to understand how this open-air labor market works by interviewing 2,667 laborers in 143 cities.
Many of the images come from Ms. Tarlow's own home in Bel Air, a labor of love (with unattributed help from celebrity architect Larry Totah) -- and they have been published at least a half a dozen times.
There's fresh air, manual labor, and lots of time to think through murder plots.
Whatever the (purported) benefits of the "fresh air" and labor in the sanatoria, even under the best conditions, 50% of those who entered died within five years (circa 1916).
This paper examines the effect of air pollution on labor supply in Lima, Peru.
In this paper, we studied the medium- and long-term consequences of air pollution on labor supply.
This suggests that caregiving is likely a mechanism linking air pollution to labor supply at moderate levels.
We use a natural experiment in Indonesia to study the medium- and long-term effects of air pollution on labor supply.
We propose to study the medium- and long-term2 effects of air pollution on labor supply, using data from Indonesia and taking advantage of a natural experiment that offers the unique opportunity of having a truly randomly assigned pollution shock.
The hospital, designed as a self-sufficient community where residents would reap the curative benefits of fresh air and honest labor, is overcrowded by more than 400 patients in 1930.
In the United States we rightly require manufacturers, beyond competing, to comply with: clean air, clean water, labor rights, a minimum wage, Social Security, Medicare, a safe working place, safe machinery, plant closing notices, parental leave, etc.
