This article examines the economic consequences associated with the death of a child. The economic costs (funeral and medical expenses and productivity losses) of child death 6 months following the death were estimated based on 213 parents who had experienced the death of a child (usually unexpectedly and predominantly mothers). Findings suggest that productivity losses associated with child de...

Introduction The role of education in local, state and national economic development has become a central public policy issue in recent years. Rural localities, in particular, which typically have lower education levels among the adult population than urban areas, view increased educational investments as an important component of an economic development strategy. At the same time, rural commun...

approximately half of employees over the world work in the gender specific jobs where at least 80 percent of the employees belong to the same gender. in fact, non-agricultural jobs specific to men are seven times more than those of women. this phenomenon shows inflexibility of job market it leads to the reduction in especially for women and decreases the economic efficiency (anker, 1998). gende...

Unemployment is a universal problem with which the political leadership of almost every country has to wrestle. Even the United States of America which has emerged as the dominant economy of the global village, is forced to invest considerable resources in job creation and economic development programmes aimed at reducing institutional unemployment. This matter has become so significant in the ...

This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study that explored the impact of involuntary unemployment at a time of economic recession on people‟s everyday life and mental wellbeing. The study was undertaken in Bradford, West Yorkshire, a city characterised by many years of economic downturn before the official start of the economic recession in January 2009. It focused on unemployed peopl...

introduction: job stress can result from an imbalance between job demands and the abilities to cope them. stress can affect individuals and lead to job dissatisfaction. this study was conducted to assess the influence of different job stress dimensions on job satisfaction in workers of a refinery control room located at the south of iran. materials & methods: in this cross sectional study all 1...

A hallmark of modern labor economics is the close interplay between the development of theory, data sources and econometric testing. The evolution of the economic analysis of unemployment insurance provides a good illustration. New theoretical approaches, in particular job-search theory, have inspired a large amount of empirical research, some of it methodologically innovative and most of it hi...