As social and economic forces impact business practices, the significance of delivering effective employer-driven, employment services (i.e., demand-side model) to facilitate employment and retention for individuals who have not traditionally benefited from labor force participation is of increased importance. The purpose of this paper is to provide descriptions of two public-private partnershi...

• Retirement plan participation unchanged: After two straight years of significant declines in the number of employment-based retirement plan participants during 2001 and 2002—by far the largest two-year decline—participation slightly increased in 2003 and 2004. However, the percentage of all workers participating in an employment-based retirement plan remained essentially unchanged, from 41.8 ...

Antiretroviral (ARV) drug treatment for AIDS dramatically improves health status and increases life expectancy, but there is little evidence on whether it improves employment outcomes in developing countries. In this paper, I examine the labor market e↵ects of the government provision of free ARV treatment in public health clinics in South Africa, which enrolled over 500,000 patients between 20...

Over the last twenty years, fundamental changes have taken place in the structure of employment in the highly developed countries. In particular, the number of jobs in manufacturing has decreased, but service employment has increased considerably. This has been associated with an increase in the number of women in paid work, as well as with regional shifts in growth and decline. However, despit...

3 Introduction The food processing industry is increasingly becoming an important sector in developing countries for its role in generating employment and attracting foreign investment. During the period 1980-91, the food industry (including tobacco and beverages) grew at a rate of 87% in developing nations (doubling in many Asian countries) compared to only 20% in developed countries. Moreover...

Purpose – This paper reports the results of an empirical investigation of the relationship between internship participation and student employment marketability. The study identifies the value that employers attribute to internships as a qualification for employment and as a factor in determining

In this systematic review, we investigated research literature evaluating the effectiveness of occupational therapy interventions focusing on participation and performance in occupations related to paid and unpaid employment and education for people with serious mental illness. The review included occupation- and activity-based interventions and interventions addressing performance skills, aspe...

Why Are Fertility and Women’s Employment Rates So Low in Italy? Lessons from France and the U.K. According to the agenda for employment set by the EU in 2000 for the following ten years, the target for female employment was set at 60 per cent for the year 2010. While Northern and most Continental countries have achieved this quantitative target, the Mediterranean countries are lagging behind. L...