PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine the relationship among sick leave benefits, employment patterns, individual characteristics, and fatigue in patients receiving radiation therapy. DESIGN Prospective, longitudinal design. SETTING A community hospital radiation oncology department. SAMPLE 77 patients receiving radiation therapy to the breast, chest, head and neck, pelvis, or prostate. All were ...

The emergence of the so-called “European Paradox” shows that increasing Governmental R&D Investment is far from being a ‘panacea’ for stagnant growth. Surprisingly, Governmental R&D Employment does not contribute to ‘mass-market’ employment, despite its important role in reducing YouthUnemployment. Despite the negative side-effect of Governmental R&D Employment on economic growth, University R&...

This paper overviews the growing literature on the effects of finance on labor. At their best, financial markets allocate resources efficiently, expanding output, investment and employment but also forcing inefficient firms to shut down or restructure. This second effect creates employment risk and costly reallocations. At firm level, this risk is mitigated by long-term employment relationships...

This paper provides non-technical summaries of theories which posit a relationship between aggregate employment and real wages and presents results from Australian and selected overseas empirical studies. Neoclasssical supply side theories assume that real wages, for given endowments of physical capital, primarily influence the cost of employing labour, and have an inverse relationship to aggre...

Recent proposals argue that a fast food tax may be an effective policy lever for reducing population weight. Although there is growing evidence for a negative association between fast food prices and weight among adolescents, less is known about adults. That any measured relationship to date is causal is unclear because there has been no attempt to separate variation in prices on the demand sid...

Purpose: The paper focuses on the impacts of overweight and obesity on the probability of employment, wages, and the incidence of sick-leave days by gender, in Russia, over the transition period, 1994-2005. Approach: We use panel data and appropriate instrumental variables techniques to estimate a set of three models. Findings: The results show a linear negative effect of BMI on probability of ...

The changing wage and employment structure in some OECD countries has been attributed to increased levels of education and technical change in favour of skilled workers. However, in the Netherlands and some other OECD countries the wages of skilled workers did not rise, whereas investment in skills rose dramatically. This paper offers a theory which is able to explain the dramatic increase in t...

In this work, the method of iterative Fourier transform phase reconstruction, conventionally used in holography and optical image reconstruction, is applied to phase only synthesis of antenna patterns. The method is applied to two types of pattern synthesis problems: "main lobe beam shaping" and "side-lobe-level reduction". The proposed method is most useful in the efficient employment of attai...