This paper utilizes the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) new worklife tables' information on workforce participation probabilities to estimate the effect of an injury on a worker's life expectancy, worklife expectancy and discounted expected income. After a medical opinion has been obtained concerning the effect of an injury on a worker's probabilities of living and remaining active, the BLS's ...

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 labor market, or choose to be voluntary unemployed. Labor force participation decisions depen...

While welfare reform matters for workers and workplaces, it is peripheral in English-language sociology of work and industrial relations research. This article’s core proposition is that active labour market policies (ALMPs) are altering the institutional constitution of the labour market by intensifying market discipline within the workforce. This re-commodification effect is specified drawing...

In Recoding Gender, Janet Abbate explores the untold history of women in computer science and programming from the Second World War to the late twentieth century. Demonstrating how gender has shaped the culture of computing, she aims to offer a valuable historical perspective on today’s concerns over women’s underrepresentation in the field. Jennifer Miller recommends this book for both readers...

This commentary talks about patient involvement in one of the biggest EU projects to date-U-BIOPRED. It describes how people and carers of people with asthma have been able to develop and drive their input and have their voice heard among the >200 healthcare professional project members. Five key principles for the success of the patient involvement group are presented: involve early, involve d...

INTRODUCTION Patient and public involvement in healthcare planning, service development and health-related research has received significant attention. However, evidence about the role of patient involvement in quality improvement work is more limited. We aimed to characterize patient involvement in three improvement projects and to identify strengths and weaknesses of contrasting approaches. ...

OBJECTIVE To provide a contemporary picture of the general practitioner and specialist obstetric workforce in Victoria. DESIGN, PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING Postal census by questionnaire of all 317 Fellows and 961 Diplomates on the Victorian database of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in September 2003. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Sex, age and geograp...

INTRODUCTION The successful implementation and utilisation of electronic health information systems is dependent on a highly knowledgeable and skilled workforce. In Australia there is a range of education and training opportunities that seeks to meet these workforce needs. This range of programs reflects both the multi-disciplinary characteristic of health informatics and its wide application w...

Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, this article considers longer-lasting economic impacts on Australian workforce through a gender lens. Using Bureau of Statistics data, it analyses changes in employment, earnings and educational participation relative to pre-pandemic trends that were predicted have otherwise occurred. Despite women's employment moving back towards levels more rapidly than...

OBJECTIVE Women are under-represented in the intensive care medicine (ICM) specialist workforce. I aimed to better understand the challenges these women face so they can be considered in the training and support of ICM specialists. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS All female Fellows of the College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM) of Australia and New Zealand were surveyed using an online questionnair...