The recent global recession and concurrent rise in job loss makes unemployment insurance (UI) increasingly important to smooth patterns of consumption and keep households from experiencing extreme material poverty. In this paper, we undertake a realist review to produce a critical understanding of how and why UI policies impact on poverty and health in different welfare state contexts between 2...

OBJECTIVE To examine cervical cancer mortality rates in Mexican urban and rural communities, and their association with poverty-related factors, during 1990-2000. MATERIAL AND METHODS We analyzed data from national databases to obtain mortality trends and regional variations using a Poisson regression model based on location (urban-rural). RESULTS During 1990-2000 a total of 48,761 cervical...

Throughout the United States, disadvantaged, declining and struggling rural and smaller communities have wrestled with the problem of developing a sustainable base for economic activity. In North Carolina, for example, although statewide unemployment for the end of 2004 is a very respectable 4.8%, many rural counties are over 7.0%. And in general, economic growth in smaller communities under 50...

This article presents a discussion of rural-urban migration as a source of social and behavioral change in Ghana. It explores the extent to which the urban social environment in Ghana generates conflicts for migrants with a different value orientation and the degree of influence of the urban social environment on migrants' behavior. The first part of the discussion focuses on the nature of Gh...

in this paper we tried to analyze the relationship between migration, informal settlement, and unemployment in ahvaz as the regional metropolis of khuzestan state. unemployment and migration interaction effect with each other. because on the one hand unequal distribution facilities and services leads to unemployment and job for people, the other hand, mass unemployment in section of the workfor...

Rural-urban migration has been an important determinant of the urbanization process in Colombia. Although migration flows have been declining and they explain less of urban population growth, the recent intensification of armed conflict in the country is again pushing rural population to urban centers. Migration flows can explain most of the increase of the urban labor supply, which along with ...