BACKGROUND Economic recession affects quality of life by increasing rates of mental disorders in particular. Social support can be an important protective factor. AIM To estimate the impact of being personally affected by an economic crisis on health-related quality of life (HRQoL), taking into account the possible buffering effect of perceived social support. DESIGN AND SETTING Data from t...

We investigate how the relationship between economic growth and pollution is affected by the source of pollution: production or consumption. We are interested in polluting waste that cannot be naturally absorbed, but for which recycling efforts aim to avoid massive pollution accumulation with harmful consequences in the long run. We distinguish the cases where recycling efforts are capital-impr...

Krugman, Young, Kim & Lau and Collins & Bosworth have argued that the extraordinary record of economic growth in East Asia can be explained adequately by factor accumulation deriving from Abread-and-butter economic forces@ such as high savings rates, good education, and the movement of under-employed peasants into the modern sector. Yet this explanation that it was all based on Aworking harder,...

social capital can improve industrial growth via different mechanisms. in this study, taking the improvement of technology through social capital as one of the mechanisms, we have analyzed the effect of social capital on industrial growth theoretically and empirically. according to the findings of the article, derived from our cointegration model, and iranian economic data (1966-2006), social c...

This study deals with wage inequality in organization and shows the relationship between ICT and wage in organization. To do so, we incorporate ICT’s factors in organization into our model. ICT’s factors are efficiencies of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Computer Assisted Design/Computer Assisted Manufacturing (CAD/CAM), and NETWORK. The improvement of ICT’s factors decrease the learning c...

We give evidence that human capital accumulation by the poor is only possible if a minimum level of health and well-being has been attained. When families do not have enough resources to invest in the satisfaction of basic needs and health care, and finance is not available for this purpose, a poverty trap exists with low health, education and income. These poverty traps may persist if policies...

The economism paradigm consists of five key elements: capitalist market economy; poverty reduction rather than the pursuit of equality; the “economic fertilizer” role of government; a pro-growth political regime and domestic economic stability. Economism is a paradigm of “more or less”, in which individuals with different income can change positions given equality in economic opportunities. Eco...