OBJECTIVES This study investigates the prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) by gender and socio-economic characteristics. It also explores the differences in the employment status between RA patients and the general population without RA in Korea. METHODS We analyzed data from the Fourth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES IV) conducted from 2007 to 2009. Preval...

OBJECTIVE To investigate employment status after spinal cord injury (SCI) and identify personal, family, and injury characteristics those affect their employment in South Korea. METHODS Participants were 334 community-dwelling persons 20-64 years of age who had sustained SCI for more than one year. Investigators visited each participant's home to carry out the survey. Bivariate and binary log...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and health in Brazil. METHODS The analysis of the impact of employment and income on mortality in Brazil was based on panel data from Brazilian states between 1981 and 2002. Mortality rates obtained from the national mortality database was used as a proxy for health status, whereas the variables employment, income, and ill...

women which comprise half of the population of the world is one of the indexes of development. hence the level 'of women employment can be an effective element in upgrading the economic and cultural development of our nation. unfortunately if the men employment faces with problems which does it has multiple effect (1il women employment. the women have been kept away from employment scene f...

In this paper, we assess whether boosting minority car-ownership rates would narrow inter-racial employment rate differentials. We pursue two empirical strategies. First, we explore whether the effect of auto ownership on the probability of being employed is greater for more segregated groups of workers. Exploiting the fact that African-Americans are considerably more segregated from whites tha...

In this paper we consider a system consisting of a supplier with a single processing unit, a repair center, and a retailer with Poisson demand. We assume that the retailer applies one-for-one ordering policy with backorders for his inventory control. The retailer’s orders form a queue in the supplier processing unit. We also assume that a certain fraction of the products produced by the supplie...

Economic diversification has long been considered a potential determinant of stability in regional economies, with policymakers often emphasizing efforts to diversify local economies as a means of reducing cyclical swings in unemployment. In recent years several cross sectional studies comparing different regional economies have supported the linkage of diversification and stability, while sugg...