the increasing trend in women's market employment since 1950s in the world has been documented as the most important indication for 'the revolution in gender roles' (davis 1984, cotter et al 2001). despite the significant capabilities of women and the substantial achievements facilitating female labor force participation in the recent years (such as substantial increase both in w...

This paper investigates the channels through which maternal employment affects childhood obesity. We use time diaries and interview responses from the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics which combines information on children’s time allocation, children’s BMI, and mother’s labor force participation. We find some evidence that supervision and nutrition play signifi...

BACKGROUND Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) constitutes a huge burden for patients and studies show that IBD patients have difficulties remaining in employment. Because there is no data about the unemployment of IBD patients in Japan. METHODS We surveyed a representative sample of 1068 Japanese IBD patients regarding their employment status. RESULTS We found that the labor force participati...

The lidA Cohort Study (German Cohort Study on Work, Age, Health and Work Participation) was set up to investigate and follow the effects of work and work context on the physical and psychological health of the ageing workforce in Germany and subsequently on work participation. Cohort participants are initially employed people subject to social security contributions and born in either 1959 (n =...

INTRODUCTION Few studies have measured gender inequality at levels lower than the country. We sought to develop neighbourhood indicators of gender inequality, and assess their ability to capture variability in gender inequality across Québec, Canada. METHODS Aggregate 2001 census data for 11,564 neighbourhoods were obtained for men and women. Twelve indicators of gender inequality representin...

INTRODUCTION This article outlines the meaningful participation of eight Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members employed as community researchers investigating the impact of pandemic influenza in rural and remote Indigenous communities in Australia. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participation is now a requirement of health research involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait...

Researchers have long noted that child support policy for low-income parents may discourage formal child support payments and increase fathers’ participation in the underground economy. Among other factors, low-income fathers may have an incentive to avoid the formal child support system through underground work, since child support order amounts for low-income fathers can be quite high relativ...

I study the interactions of product and labor market institutions in a model characterized by a three-states representation of the labor market. Firms bargain with unions over wages and employment levels. This generates unemployment. Households take the associated unemployment risk as given in making their participation decisions. Unemployment inserts a wedge between labor supply (participation...

PURPOSE Knowledge on what contributes to job satisfaction of people with intellectual disabilities is limited. Using self-determination theory, we investigated whether fulfillment of basic psychological needs (i.e., autonomy, relatedness, competence) affected job satisfaction, and explored associations between workplace participation, need fulfillment and job satisfaction. METHOD A total of 1...