This paper applies semiparametric regression models to shed light on the relationship between body weight and labor market outcomes in Germany. We find conclusive evidence that these relationships are poorly described by linear or quadratic OLS specifications. Women's wages and employment probabilities do not follow a linear relationship and are highest at a body weight far below the clinical t...

Childhood obesity rates have increased dramatically in the United States since the late 1970s. During the same time period, the nation has witnessed an upward trend in women’s labor force participation and in the use of child care. Despite a large body of empirical research on the impact of environmental, behavioral, and societal factors on obesity, surprisingly little attention has been devote...

46 inpatients with a DSM-III diagnosis of schizophrenia were assessed in the week prior to discharge from hospital on measures of positive and negative symptoms and on 12 measures of employment interview skills (i.e., eye contact, facial gestures, body posture, verbal content, voice volume, length of speech, motivation, self-confidence, ability to communicate, manifest adjustment, manifest inte...

This paper investigates the advantages and effectiveness of applying alternative dispute resolution systems (ADR) as part of the thinking and dynamics associated with the current review of employment dispute resolution in Great Britain. The paper draws on knowledge and information obtained from an international study of ADR methods in various countries including Japan, New Zealand, USA and Camb...

A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Programmes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. Using a meta-analysis, we condense 93 estimates from 33 empirical studies of the effectiveness of four types of ALMPs employed across Europe to combat immigrant unemploymen...

This study investigated selected work-performance data of a large call centre using the entrepreneurial business planning paradigm as a theoretical framework and tested the hypothesis that levels of productivity would be different for each group between workers with a disability and workers without a disability. On five measures of productivity, no significant differences were discernible but o...