OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between health-related quality of life (HQoL) and employment status in renal transplant recipients (RTRs). METHODS Eighty-two RTRs met inclusion criteria: 21-65 yr of age; greater than one yr post-transplant; and received calcineurin inhibitors. A cross-sectional survey was conducted using a demographics questionnaire and the following HQoL instruments: S...

BACKGROUND Health effects of working with plutonium remain unclear. Plutonium workers at the United States Department of Energy (US-DOE) Hanford Site in Washington State, USA were evaluated for increased risks of cancer and non-cancer mortality. METHODS Periods of employment in jobs with routine or non-routine potential for plutonium exposure were identified for 26,389 workers hired between 1...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use a risk management perspective to identify the risks of employment discrimination law liability for multinational employers. Design/methodology/approach – Data from 101 US Federal Court cases that involved multinational employers operating both inside and outside of the USA were content coded and then used to identify factors that predict the frequen...

We test for the long-term effects of experience during youth on consumption in nontraditional taste-forming categories. A unique dataset that tracks individuals over twenty years from 1992-2011, residing in nine Chinese provinces that vary widely in both income levels and rate of economic growth, helps us identify cohort and intra-cohort “prosperity-inyouth” (PIY) effects on consumption. We fir...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the individualand country-level variations in unregistered employment. To analyse whether it is marginalised groups who are more likely to engage in unregistered employment and explain the country-level variations, a 2010 Life in Transition Survey (LiTS) involving 38,864 interviews in 35 Eurasian countries is reported. Multilevel logistic regression analysis...

Achieving common prosperity is the essential requirement of socialism and promoting regional coordinated development (RCD) an important path to achieving prosperity. This study uses data from Zhejiang Province 2011 2020, a demonstration zone prosperity, construct evaluation model RCD, assess level degree, then analyze differences spatial correlation pattern RCD. The following results were obtai...

OBJECTIVE To address cognitive impairments that limit the effectiveness of supported employment services for patients with schizophrenia, a cognitive training program, the Thinking Skills for Work Program, was developed and integrated into supported employment services. METHOD Patients with severe mental illness (N=44) and prior histories of job failures who were enrolled in supported employm...

as in most countries men enjoy a higher level of financial prosperity and prestige of employment, it is reasonably expected that they should enjoy a higher level of subjective well-being as well, but the results of a number of studies as well as world values surveys surprisingly indicate the opposite—that gender privileges with respect to subjective well-being in many countries are higher in wo...

In this paper, we compare the intentionality of students in graduate business programs in the United States and China toward becoming entrepreneurs. We utilize Amabile’s Work Preference Inventory (WPI) to examine the motivational dimension of entrepreneurial intentionality and the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to compare the impact of gender and family history of self-employment on employmen...