war has devastating implications for families, communities, cultures, economies, and state infrastructure. similarly, the last decade has seen an increase in the number of attacks against health workers in conflict zones and unstable environments. unfortunately, these attacks have grave consequences for local populations which often rely on foreign aid programs for their health and well-being. ...

Available research supports several major conclusions about the economic consequences of immigration. (i) The aggregate impacts of foreign workers on the earnings and employment of native workers are quite small, but differ for selected population subgroups and high ethnic density labor markets. (ii) Immigrants who arrived during the 1970s are less skilled than earlier arrivals, and their earni...

A cross-sectional survey was conducted to understand the extent of occupational injuries and the perception of hazards among the road-side welders in the city of Karachi. Burns and foreign body in eyes were reported to be the most common injuries. Few workers perceived their occupation as hazardous. Consequently, few of them reported using protective measures. A 3-step strategy was recommended ...

This paper studies how foreign direct investment (FDI) contributes to cultural convergence across countries. Specifically, we examine whether multinational firms transfer corporate culture of employing women to foreign affi liates and eventually to local firms in the host country. To guide our empirical analysis, we build a parsimonious multi-sector task-based model that features heterogeneity ...

Thanks to direct access to union databases, this paper applies survival analysis to a sample of 47,637 Italian workers trying to explain the determinants of the duration of union membership. The results show that union membership duration is a positive, though declining, function of age. Furthermore, women, flexible workers, foreign ones and those working in cities tend to show less attachment ...

We use recently developed procedures to decompose German Lorenz curves for post-government incomes among East Germans, West Germans, and foreign guest workers after German unification. The decomposed Lorenz ordinates permit us to construct interdistributional Lorenz curves, which in turn allow dominance comparisons of changes in economic advantage in different years. Using interdistributional G...