This review of the existing evidence on the impact of disability on labour market outcomes draws together the key themes in the literature and by considering a range of evidence provides a comprehensive overview of the significant negative effects disability has on both employment and earnings. Importantly, this paper is able to identify specific features of the disabled group that complicate t...

OBJECTIVE To examine how a government committed to a voluntary approach was forced by an effective advocacy coalition to introduce comprehensive smoke-free legislation. METHODS A diary was kept from the start of the campaign in 2003, backed up by journal and press articles, and information downloaded from the web. Regular public opinion polls were also carried out to supplement government sur...

This article examines a specific chapter of the Hungarian Labour Code, regulation on executive employees. The study is comparative in nature and aims to reveal difference between old new legislation. It compares changes past current legislation presents solutions used Western European labour law achieve most optimal status. also looks at what solutions, should be adopted field management would ...

BACKGROUND There is increasing international concern over the rising number of children involved in labour, particularly in developing countries. Despite the multitude of related risk factors, and some evidence on their social needs, there has been limited research on these children's mental health. METHODS The aim of this study was to establish the association between labour-related variable...

The article analyses the peculiarities of application standards International Labour Organization in judicial practice Ukraine. Despite fact that claimants very often, when filing lawsuits, strengthen their argumentation by referring to ILO Convention or Recommendation, these international do not form direct basis subsequent court decisions. This circumstance is viewed primarily as one resultin...

This paper examines the structure of wages in a very specific labour market, for care assistants in residential homes for the elderly on England's "sunshine coast". This sector corresponds closely to economists' notion of what should be a competitive labour market as: (i) there are a large number of small firms undertaking a very homogeneous activity in concentrated geographical areas; and (ii)...