INTRODUCTION Rural background and training have previously been found to increase the likelihood of rural practice. However, practitioners of many health professions remain in shortage in rural and remote Australia. This study builds on previous work in that it includes medical, nursing and allied health professions, considers the role of the health professional's family in employment decisions...

This paper addresses the question, whether and how employees use second job holdings to smooth out consumption shortfalls from non-anticipated wage shocks in their main employment. The analysis is based on the panel estimation of a dual job labour supply model a unique nationally representative data sets from Ukraine which contains detailed information on wage non-payment. The analysis accounts...

This article reports on the experiences of a group of deaf and hard-of-hearing alumni of Griffith University in south-east Queensland, Australia. Participants completed a survey answering questions about their communication patterns and preferences, working lives, career barriers or difficulties anticipated and encountered, and workplace accommodations used or sought. Results revealed a range o...

The Ontario Mother and Infant Survey examined health and social service utilization of postpartum women and newborn infants from five hospital sites. A cross-sectional multilanguage survey design with longitudinal follow-up was used: 1,250 eligible, consenting women completed a self-report questionnaire in hospital and 875 women participated in a structured telephone interview at four weeks pos...

BACKGROUND Although the medical outcomes of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV/AIDS are well described, less is known about how ART affects patients' economic activities and quality of life, especially after the first year on ART. We assessed symptom prevalence, general health, ability to perform normal activities, and employment status among adult antiretroviral therapy patients in South Afr...

Despite constituting the third most important source of revenue for Canadian governments, payroll taxes receive relatively little attention. This is particularly surprising on two counts: first, there are important controversies regarding the employment effects of these taxes and, second, payroll taxes have grown substantially over the last 30 years and are likely to continue to increase in the...

t he last thing most new graduates expected to worry about when they entered their nursing programs was finding employment when they graduated. although it is true that a serious nursing shortage is still anticipated within a decade (Buerhaus, auerbach, & staiger, 2009), new graduates today across the country are experiencing difficulty securing their first job. the economic downturn over the p...