Self-employment duration in urban and rural locations

From Urban and Rural Locations

Background. After discharge from an acute care setting, elderly cardiac patients take a variety of medications in the horne setting. Their pharmacologic regimens are often quite complex, and may involve drugs from several therapeutic categories. Patterns of medication use can be one measure of patient status after discharge because they can indicate whether medical conditions are stabilized. A ...

Comparative Benefits of Mobile Telephone in Selected Rural and Urban Locations of Obio/Akpor Local Government

The study comparatively identified the benefits of mobile telephone to users in selected rural and urban locations in Obio/Akpor local government area of Rivers State, Nigeria. Stratified and simple random sampling techniques were used in selecting 60 rural and 60 urban phone users to have a total sample size of 120 respondents. Structured questionnaire was used to generate data that were analy...

Under-employment and rural migration in iran

Rural-Urban Linkages for Growth, Employment, and Poverty Reduction

Gender and Self-Employment: Evidence from Rural China

The goal of this paper is to examine how has the expansion of the economy after 2000 affected rural off-farm labor market participation. Specifically, we seek to determine whether off-farm labor increased after 2000, what forms of employment are driving trends in off-farm labor, and whether gender differences can be observed in off-farm employment trends. Using a nationally representative datas...