Study of the relationship between mental health, psychological handicap, and industrial conditions has developed considerably in importance during the last 5 years. Wartime investigations connected with the occupational adaptation of discharged service men were described by Lewis and Slater (1942), Lewis (1943), and Guttman and Thomas (1944), and the findings of Fraser(1947) on the incidence of...

This study analyzes the impacts of further tariff reductions resulting from proliferation regional trade agreements on wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers in Chile 2000s. I match panel data industry-level effective rates other industry variables calculated plant-level microdata to pooled individual cross-section national household surveys at level. Based this unique set, estim...

This paper presents a model which captures the technological spillovers created by foreign direct investment in Transition Economies. Skill-biased technological change is linked with endogenous labor supply which allows for unemployment. The technological spillover is divided into a neutral technological change and a skill-biased technological change. The first effect makes labor and capital mo...

OBJECTIVES This study describes the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of the Portuguese working age population and investigates sociodemographic differences. METHODS Subjects randomly selected from the working age population (n=2,459) were assessed using the SF-36v2 and converted into the preference-based SF-6D. RESULTS The mean SF-6D utility value was 0.70 (range 0.63-0.73). The mean ...

Throughout the OECD, the operations of labour markets in the 1970s and 1980s have produced outcomes unfavourable to labour in general and unskilled labour in particular. In the US, this has been reflected in declining real wages, with a slight increase in the unemployment rate. In other countries, it has been reflected in a slowdown in real wages growth and a severe increase in unemployment. At...

This paper empirically investigates the influence of globalization on various aspects of labor market deregulation. I employ the data set by Bassanini and Duval (2006) on labor market institutions in OECD countries and the KOF index of globalization. The data set covers 20 OECD countries in the 1982-2003 period. The results suggest that globalization did neither influence the unemployment repla...

This paper discusses the impact of the international transfer of embodied technological change on the employment evolution of skills in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs). A large body of literature has already underlined the occurrence of widening wage and employment differentials between skilled and unskilled workers in high-income countries (HICs) (Katz and Autor, 1999). Suc...

Due to the lack of political consensus at the previous General Agreement on Trade on Services (GATS), negotiations on the temporary movement of natural persons (Mode 4) have stagnated. The growth in the economic literature surrounding this issue has also been lackluster; despite the large welfare gains that have been demonstrated to result from relatively small multilateral liberalizations on s...

Background Previous studies have demonstrated that socioeconomic factors are associated with COVID-19 incidence. In this study, we analysed a broad range of indicators in relation to hospitalised cases the Paris area. Methods We extracted 303 from French census data for 855 residential units and assessed their association hospitalisation risk. Findings The most risk were third decile population...

A study was conducted in Malaysia of 148 women seeking induced abortion from doctors. The influence of socioeconomic, ethnic, religious, and educational factors on the practice of induced abortion in Malaysia was examined along with the relationship of induced abortion to the use of contraceptives. 135 of the women were married; 13 were unmarried. 22.3% of the women did not complete primary ...