The pivotal role of health workers in enabling countries to scale up access to health services and progress to achieve the health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has long been recognised. In 2006, the World Health Report drew attention to the global health workforce crisis and its dramatic impact in 57 priority countries aff ected by severe shortages, inequitable distribution, poor motivati...

Regions inhabited with an immobile population of disabled and able individuals compete to attract mobile firms that provide jobs. The redistributive goal of regional governments is to support the disabled, who cannot work. Able individuals may work, be involuntary unemployed because of frictions in the labour market, or choose to be voluntary unemployed. Labour force participation decisions dep...

Regions inhabited with an immobile population of disabled and able individuals compete to attract mobile firms that provide jobs. The redistributive goal of regional governments is to support the disabled, who cannot work. Able individuals may work, be involuntary unemployed because of frictions in the labour market, or choose to be voluntary unemployed. Labour force participation decisions dep...

The Information Society An International Journal Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713669588 IT Education and Workforce Participation: A New Era for Women in Kenya? Victor W. A. Mbarika a; Fay Cobb Payton b; Lynette Kvasny c; Atieno Amadi d a Department of Management, Marketing, and E-Business, C...

anagement researchers and practitioners have long studied women’s representation and inclusion in organizations (Ely & Meyerson, 2000), and organizations have tried various approaches to ensure gender equity in the workplace. Supplyside or pipeline initiatives contend that if sufficient women are encouraged to enter the workforce, gender gaps in occupational participation, advancement, compensa...

The trend in most of the industrialised counties is in the direction of decreasing labour force participation of older workers. The steady withdrawal of workers from the workforce at a younger age suggests that retirement income is gradually increasing and/or that older workers are increasingly being forced out of the labour market. Regardless of whether early retirement can be traced to the la...

Krasno and Green have argued that political advertising has no impact on voter turnout. We remain unconvinced by their evidence, given concerns about how they measure the advertising environment, how they measure advertising tone, their choice of modeling techniques and the generalizability of their findings. These differences aside, we strongly agree that political advertising does little to u...

Increasing women’s participation in Computer Science (CS) is a critical workforce and equity concern. The technology industry has committed to reversing negative trends for women in CS, engineering, and related fields. Building on previous research, we surveyed 1,739 high school students and recent college graduates to understand factors influencing decisions to pursue CS-related college degree...

This article investigates the development of the share of women CEOs and chairpersons in knowledge intensive industries in Sweden from 2000 to 2010. The Swedish national development, covering all limited companies with a CEO, is compared to case studies of the biotech and the ICT industries, with differences in female participation in the highly educated key workforce. The results indicate an i...