The Impact of Incarceration in State Prison on the Employment Prospects of Women This paper uses a unique data set constructed from two sets of administrative records to examine the relationship between incarceration and employment rates for former female state prisoners from Illinois. Our analysis indicates that although prison is associated with declining employment rates during the quarters ...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of the accessibility to employment offices on local unemployment rates according to the distribution of three different types of municipalities: large urban, small urban and non-urban. We built a new accessibility measure taking into account the number of employment offices together with the distance and size of their catchment area. We propose an ...

This paper argues that the major workplace inclusion strategies for accommodating diversity in Canada – including employment equity, affirmative action, pay equity, and diversity management – are part of a national development agenda that should be situated within a global dialogue on economics and pluralism, and this is a key to understanding and engaging sound employment policy and thus reali...

The Earned Income Tax Credit subsidizes earnings from both the wage sector and the self-employment sector. This paper uses tax return data to investigate how the EITC affects the reporting of self-employment income to the IRS. A difference-in-difference strategy is used, considering three expansions in the EITC and comparing changes across filers with and without children. The expansions are pr...

Critics of globalization claim that firms are being driven by the prospects of cheaper labor to shift employment abroad. Yet the evidence, beyond anecdotes, is slim. This paper focuses on the labor market decisions of US multinationals at home and abroad for the years 1977 to 1999. Using firm level data collected by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), we separately estimate the impact on ...

BACKGROUND Precarious employment is becoming an increasingly important social determinant of health inequalities among workers. The way in which contemporary employment arrangements and their health consequences are addressed in empirical research is mostly based on the contract-related or employment instability dimension. A broader conceptual approach including various important characteristic...

William C. Goodman Employment in hospitals is subject to influences that are not related to the business cycle and responds to the business cycle in an unusual way. The trends of employment in hospitals therefore contrast with those of total employment, especially during cyclical downturns. Apart from the effect of the business cycle, demographic and technological changes influence hospital job...

BACKGROUND This study was undertaken at a major UK airport in response to management concerns about levels of sickness absence and impaired work capacity in the security department in order to investigate the possibility of achieving reductions through changes in pre-employment screening procedures. AIMS To determine the predictive capacity of a declared musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) at pre-...