Abstract Background In China, achieving health equity has been regarded as a key issue for reform and development in the current context. It is well known that unemployment negative effect on health. However, few studies have addressed association between inequity health-related quality of life (HRQOL). This study aims to compare inequality HRQOL unemployed employed China. Methods The material ...

BACKGROUND In the United States, adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) experience high rates of unemployment and underemployment in relation to adults with other disabilities and the general population. Yet there is little research examining their employment experiences and the predictors of employment status. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the employment characterist...

Zusammenfassung: Sprach-Biometrie ist inzwischen im Praxiseinsatz bewährt, robust und sicher. In diesem Papier werden einige Grundlagen kurz umrissen. Den Hauptteil füllt eine Diskussion potenzieller Einsatzmöglichkeiten im Hochschulbereich unter Betriebs-, Einsparungsund Sicherheitsaspekten. Es werden Fragestellungen aufgezählt, die für Hersteller von Biometrie-Lösungen wichtig sind und gleich...

We study the influence of social networks on labor market transitions. We develop the first model where social ties and job status coevolve through time. Our key assumption is that the probability of formation of a new tie is greater between two employed individuals than between an employed and an unemployed individual. We show that this assumption generates negative duration dependence of exit...

BACKGROUND The combination of child care and domestic work demands on both housewives and the employed (hired) women may impact their health-related quality-of-life. There is paucity of studies to ascertain this. This study investigated the differences in health-related quality of life of employed and unemployed women with normal vaginal delivery and associated socio-demographic variables. ME...

The aim of this paper is to show that different transport modes between whites and nonwhites lead to different search intensities. We develop a theoretical model in which whites mainly use cars to commute whereas nonwhites use public transportation. We show that, for both whites and nonwhites, living in areas where employed workers’ average commuting time is higher yield the unemployed to searc...

This paper analyses the labour market transitions of unemployed individuals. We are particularly interested in why some individuals become self-employed instead of wage or salary earners upon returning to employment. Using Finnish microdata and a multinomial logit model we find that when we compare unemployed individuals ́ probability of moving into a wage or salary work with the probability of ...