National Labor Markets, International Factor Mobility and Macroeconomic Instability

We consider a standard two—country environment, where one of the countries has rigid wages and unemployment, and analyze how factor markets’ integration affects the economy with respect to expectationsdriven fluctuations. We demonstrate that by allowing free capital mobility, indeterminacy is exported to the world economy. If further liberalization is permitted, by allowing free movements of labor, the scope for indeterminacy is reduced and open labor markets may produce a stabilizing effect on the global macroeconomy. Whether this also implies higher welfare in the long run depends on differentials in average firm size across countries.Indeterminacy, Factor Movements, Globalization, Efficiency Wages

Unionized Labor Markets and Globalized Capital Markets

This paper studies the effects of international integration of capital markets in a world where countries differ in their labor market institutions: one country has a perfectly competitive labor market while the other is unionized. We show that workers should favor autarky in the unionized country, but oppose it in the non unionized country and vice versa for owners of capital. Aggregate gains from integration, however, are negative. We also show that, under capital mobility, an increase in relative bargaining power of unions does not always improve workers’ welfare.Capital mobility, Globalization, Unions, Welfare.

Endogenous Business Cycles and Stabilization Policies

We analyze the effects of simple stylized economic policy rules, or stabilization principles, when fluctuations in economic activity are created endogenously by self_fulfilling volatile expectations. We study a simple monetary competitive model with intertemporally optimizing agents and a government. We only depart from neoclassical orthodoxy by assuming that a cycle or a sunspot equilibrium, not necessarily a steady state, could be the descriptive dynamic rational expectations equilibrium. The government may then well out of welfare concerns want to conduct systematic stabilization policy through transfers, expenditure, and taxation even though this has distortionary effects. We show that the policy rules that stabilize output in a way that is best for welfare involve countercyclical elements in government activity.Endogenous business cycles; Stabilization policy

Unions and Globalisation

We analyze the effects of international integration of product and capital markets (i.e., globalisation) in a world where countries differ in their labour market institutions: one country has a perfectly competitive labour market while the other is unionized. We show that workers should favour autarky in the unionized country, but oppose it in the non unionized country. Vice versa for owners of capital. Aggregate gains from integration, however, are negative. We also show that, under capital mobility an increase in relative bargaining power of unions does not always improve workers' welfare: there is a critical level of bargaining strength above which an increase in union power reduces workers' income in the unionized country.Capital mobility, Unions, Globalisation

Endogenous business cycles and stabilization policies

The paper reports results on the effects of stylized stabilization policies on endogenously created fluctuations. A simple monetary model with intertemporally optimizing agents is considered. Fluctuations in output may occur due to fluctuations in labor supply which are again caused by volatile expectations which are ``self fulfilling'', i.e. correct given the model. It turns out that stabilization policies that are sufficiently countercyclical in the sense that government spending (on transfers or demand) depends sufficiently strongly negatively on GNP-increases can stabilize the economy at a monetary steady state for an arbitrarily low degree of distortion of that steady state. Such stabilization has unambiguously good welfare effects and can be achieved without features such as positive lump sum taxation or negative income taxation as part of the stabilization policy.Endogenous business cycles, stabilization policy

Perception of organizational politics and the effect of authenticity and affective commitment on deviance and task performance in contact centers

This study aimed to understand employees’ reactions to organizational politics in Contact Centers. Drawing from a sample of 187 supervisor-employee dyads, we studied the relationship between employees’ perceptions of organizational politics and supervisor-rated task performance and deviance, and mediation effects by authenticity at work and affective commitment. Results indicate that workers tend to react to workplace politics with deviant behavior and worse task performance. We found that the relationship between perceived politics and task performance was mediated by authenticity. The relationship between perceived politics and supervisor-rated deviance was mediated by affective commitment to the organization. Implications for management are discussed

Percepción del equipo de enfermería sobre un servicio de la educación continua de un hospital de universitario

O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar o Serviço de Educação Continuada (SEC) de um hospital de ensino, sob a ótica da equipe de enfermagem, nas dimensões avaliativas de estrutura, de processo e de resultado. Trata-se de um estudo exploratório descritivo, realizado em hospital universitário privado. Para a coleta de dados utilizou-se um instrumento composto por uma escala de Likert. O tratamento dos dados foi realizado por meio da estatística descritiva e pelo emprego do teste Alpha de Cronbach. Na análise dos resultados, observou-se que nas três dimensões avaliativas (estrutura, processo e resultado) a equipe de enfermagem teve percepção favorável quanto às atividades desenvolvidas por este serviço. Entretanto, na comparação, a que obteve maior escores de favorabilidade foi a de estrutura, média de 42,56 (dp±4,97) e o menor a de processo, média 40,44 (dp±5,11).The objective of this study was to analyze the Service of Continuated Education (SCE) of a university hospital, from the perspective of the nursing team in the evaluative dimensions of structure, process and outcome. This is an exploratory-descriptive study,carried through in a private teaching hospital. The data collection was conducted through a questionnaire, using a Likert scale.The treatment of the data was carried through a descriptive statistics using the Cronbach Alpha test. Analyzing the data, we observed that in the tree evaluated dimensions (structure, process and result) the nurse team had favorable perception relative to this service. However, the structure dimension received the highest favorability score, average of 42,56 (dp±4,97), with process dimension receiving the lower score of, average 40,44 (dp±5,11).Lo objetivo de este estudio fue analizar el Servicio de la Educación de Continua (SEC) de un hospital universitario, de la perspectiva del equipo del oficio de enfermera en la evaluación de las dimensiones de estructura, proceso y resultados. Esto es un estudio exploratorio-descriptivo, ejecutado en un hospital de enseñanza privado. La colección de datos fue conducida a través de un cuestionario, usando una escala de Likert. El tratamiento de los datos fue llevado con las estadísticas descriptivas usando la prueba alfa de Cronbach. Analizando los datos, observamos que en el árbol evaluó las dimensiones (estructura, proceso y resultado) la enfermera que el equipo tenía opinión favorable concerniente a este servicio. Sin embargo, la dimensión de la estructura recibió la cuenta más alta del favorability, promedio de 42.56 (dp±4,97), con la dimensión de proceso recibiendo la cuenta más baja de, el promedio 40.44 (dp±5,11)

Relatório de estágio

O presente relatório de estágio insere-se no segundo ano do Mestrado em Psicologia clínica e da Saúde, da Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Faculdade de Filosofia de Braga. O estágio decorreu na Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Barcelos, mais precisamente na valência idosa - Lar de S. André e Lar Nossa Senhora da Misericórdia, abrangendo um conjunto de actividades desenvolvidas pela estagiária, com o objectivo de desenvolver competências a nível profissional. Deste modo, o relatório faz inicialmente uma descrição dos locais de observação e atuação das consultas de crianças e idosos, seguindo-se os casos clínicos de observação e de intervenção individual, intervenção em grupo e ação de sensibilização/prevenção, bem como outras atividades realizadas em contexto de estágio, tais como a participação em projetos de intervenção dirigidos aos profissionais de saúde e às crianças em idade pré-escolar. Por fim, faremos uma reflexão final sobre as experiências, competências e atividades alcançadas, durante o estágio curricular