OBJECTIVES Investigating some pertinent factors associated with elementary education teachers' quality of life working in the Brazilian city of Florianopolis and surrounding district. METHODS 349 state and municipal school system elementary school teachers working in the city and its surrounding areas answered a questionnaire containing work-related questions and the WHO Quality of Life-BREF ...

This paper analyzes the costs of job loss in China, using unique new data from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China (RUMIC) data set for the year 2009. We investigate conventional labor market outcomes upon displacement like the length of unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings. We also analyze whether displaced workers are more likely to be in informal employment relationships ...

This paper documents the key stylised facts underlying the evolution of labour supply at the extensive and intensive margins in the last forty years in three countries: United-States, United-Kingdom and France. We develop a statistical decomposition that provides bounds on changes at the extensive and intensive margins. This decomposition is also shown to be coherent with a theoretical analyis ...

INTRODUCTION There is a tendency in health policy in Ontario, Canada, to conflate 'northern' with 'rural' and to equate northern rural settings with southern ones. Although previous research has identified some differences between rural and urban practitioners, these studies have not acknowledged the subtle nuances that make rural practice different in the north than in the south. This study lo...

BACKGROUND Unemployment is a major problem for people with first-episode psychosis and schizophrenia. This has repercussions for the economy, social functioning and illness prognosis. AIMS To examine whether a vocational intervention - individual placement and support (IPS) - which has been found to be beneficial in populations with chronic schizophrenia, was a useful intervention for those w...

It is argued that increasing wages will not only attract more nurses to the health sector, but also increase the number of hours worked for those already there. This article focuses on the response of registered nurses employed in the public sector when they are allowed to endogenously choose between jobs in hospitals and primary care and between day and shift work. A structural labour supply m...

This paper investigates the relationship between labor supply and the consumption of marijuana and cocaine using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Previous studies have yielded mixed evidence but have used potentially inadequate measures to account for the simultaneity between drug consumption and labor supply. I implement an instrumental variable procedure that utilizes a se...

Weuse aggregation theory to investigate the link between one-consumer andmulti-consumer economies under a quasi-linear class of preferences. Our study is carried out in the context of the neoclassical growthmodel. The quasi-linear preferences considered are additive in consumption and leisure and linear in leisure. We first show that in a homogeneous agents economy, the individual hours worked ...

Education: 6. Schools of nursing should address decision-making within their curriculum related to the impact that fatigue and the habitual The American Nurses Association (ANA) takes the position that, regardless of the number of hours worked, all registered nurses have an ethical responsibility to carefully consider their level of fatigue when deciding whether to accept any assignment extendi...

This paper contributes to the debate initiated by Gali (1999). I provide a theory with capital income taxation, labor hoarding as well as long-run shifts in the social attitudes to the work place modelled as ”leisure at the work place” to argue that there are other shocks that may influence labor productivity in the long run. I introduce ”medium-run identification” and show it to be superior to...