This paper uses longitudinal data from the Dutch OSA Labor Supply Panel (1980-2000) to examine the phenomenon of unemployment scarring in the Netherlands. The study extends current research by not only asking if earlier unemployment damages subsequent employment careers and wages but also explores variation by the level of unemployment insurance benefits and key individual characteristics such ...

Endocrine Unit, Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, Melbourne, VIC. Ego Seeman, BSc, FRACP, MD, Professor of Medicine and Endocrinologist. Garvan Institute of Medical Research, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, NSW. John A Eisman, FRACP, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Endocrinologist and Director, Bone and Mineral Research Program. Reprints will not be available from the authors. Correspondence: ...

Previous research from our Center has documented the importance of various psychological factors in predicting psychiatric resilience (Segovia et.al, 2012) and health (Segovia et. al, 2015) in repatriated Vietnam-era prisoners of war. Optimism was shown to be a better predictor of long-term psychiatric health than variables such as amount of antisocial/psychopathic traits, post-traumatic sympto...

Koser (1993) proposed a research model for examining the interaction between information and repatriation, which focused upon the receipt and evaluation of information about their homes by refugees in exile. That model is presented and tested using interview responses from Mozambican refugees in Malawi sampled in 1992. The goal was to disaggregate refugees' decision-making process in an attem...

Two questions are discussed in this research. The first is: how to understand the phenomenon that decolonization is a rarely mentioned word context of repatriation, while colonialism familiar issue Chinese people? second: people's attitude towards repatriating cultural objects removed from China during colonial era? This research aimed provide an in-depth view understanding history, internation...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) can increase productivity and wages. However, it is also often accompanied by primary income deficits as foreign-owned firms repatriate their profits. The welfare effects of FDI are thus ambiguous. A particularly illustrative example this phenomenon the Visegrád 4 (V4) countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia). This paper investigates whether be benef...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the leading causes of death among infectious diseases worldwide. Despite its low incidence rates in countries of Western Europe and North America, the resurgence of TB in Eastern Europe and the increased immigration from high-incidence countries imply that extreme vigilance is required in order to detect early, treat, and isolate all new cases. In thi...