This study uses accessibility as a performance measure to evaluate a matrix of future land use and network scenarios for planning purposes. The concept of accessibility dates to the 1950s, but this type of application to transportation planning is new. Previous research has established the coevolution of transportation and land use, demonstrated the dependence of accessibility on both, and made...

the real business cycle theory was applied to investigate the hypothesis of cyclical agreeable treatment of real wages, for men and women work force, in the iranian agricultural sector for the period of 1971-2006. on the basis of this theory, the impacts of supply side shocks (productivity and oil income shocks), are anticipated on the fluctuations of the real wages. the dominant effect of supp...

iranian rural women have been working side by side with men in many activities. but in recent years, due to social, economic and cultural changes, the role of women in many rural activities has declined, causing many social and economic problems in rural areas. tourism is one of the activities in which there are too many opportunities for employment and entrepreneurship for women. women are abl...

This paper studies the informational content of elective teams in a dynamic agency framework with adverse selection. Two agents with di erent employment histories are paid their conditional expected marginal product. They observe their types (good or bad), and choose between working together or separately. We characterize the distributions on agents' types, nature and wages such that teams are ...

Most of the world’s economically active children work by their parents’ side, often in a family farm or business. A 2000 UNICEF project surveyed working children in 36 developing countries [1]. The data represent more than 120 million children ages 5 to 14. Although nearly 70 percent of children in these countries spend time in some form of economic activity or domestic chores, less than 3 perc...

How does finance affect employment and inter-industry job reallocations? We present a model that predicts that financial development (i) raises employment and wages, its impact being smaller at high levels of the equilibrium wage and financial development; (ii) may induce either more or less job reallocations, depending on whether shocks to profit opportunities or to cash flow are more prevalen...

Sexual harassment and assault are the factors that decrease youth quality employment. The research aim is to explore students’ beliefs exposure sexual in selected countries of European Union underpinning elaboration implications for higher education. Theoretical analysis modelling were used. exploratory study was implemented investigate relationship between self-assessment their levels relation...

This paper explores one of the key issues in current research on gender and development: the links between poverty and young women’s employment. Specifically, the following questions were addressed, in the context of Kerala: Which young women work for pay and why? To what extent is a woman’s household economic status -especially poverty status -an important determinant of employment, and to wha...

BACKGROUND Little research was done on the influence of antipsychotics' side effects on stigma of mental illness. An overview of studies shows that people with mental illness state that because of medication side effects they feel discriminated in the field of employment, observe worsening of family relations and tend to skip or discontinue their regular medication. It is difficult to discrimin...

I analyze how general practitioners (GPs) indirectly affect their patients' employment outcomes by deciding the length of sick leaves. I use an instrumental variables framework where spell durations are identified through supply-side certification measures. I find that a day of sick leave certified only because the worker's GP has a high propensity to certify sick leaves decreases the employmen...