an upward trend in the divorce rate in iran in recent years has attracted officials, researchers and sociologists towards investigating causes and factors contributing such a social menace. based on the statistics published by the statistics center of iran (sci), the divorce rate has gone up from 1.5 in 1000 cases in 1996 to 2.3 in 1999 and 3.1 in 2006. results of previous studies show that fac...

In this paper we examine the relationship between disability and paid employment in the context of recent policy changes associated with the former government’s ‘welfare-to-work’ package. We consider the question about whether a high level of disability income provision increases or decreases the risk of people being outside the labour market. The conventional assumption in welfare reform debat...

Background. Severe obesity is a risk factor for lower participation in paid work, but whether employment increases and sick leave decreases after obesity surgery is not well documented. Methods. We assessed 224 Norwegian patients with severe obesity (mean age: 40; mean BMI: 49; 61% female) regarding employment status (working versus not working) and the number of days of sick leave during the p...

BACKGROUND In Japan, Job assistance for SMI have been not active. Compared with mental retardation, employment rate of SMI was low. The needs of the effective job assistance for SMI are growing. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the combination approach of Cognitive Remediation (CR) and Supported Employment (SE) in clinical outcomes, including cognitive functioning...

In 2011 Wisconsin adopted the Manufacturing and Agriculture Credit (MAC), which provides credits which largely offset the taxes faced by businesses in those sectors in the state. While manufacturing employment has grown since the MAC took effect in 2013, how much of these gains were due to the credit is under debate. To isolate the policy effect, I focus on counties on either side of the Wiscon...

The paper studies simple strategies of labor tax reform in a search and matching model of the labor market featuring endogenous labor supply. Changing the composition of the tax wedge—that is, reducing a payroll tax and increasing a progressive wage tax such that the marginal tax wedge remains unaffected—increases employment, reduces the equilibrium unemployment rate, and increases public reven...

We develop a simple dynamic model of a worker’s transitions between employment and non-employment. Our model implies that a worker finds a job at an optimal stopping time, when a Brownian motion with drift hits a barrier. The model has structural duration dependence in the job finding rate, in the sense that the hazard rate of finding a job changes during a non-employment spell for a given work...

The aim of this paper is to understand recent observations of fertility, female employment, and participation rates in O.E.C.D. countries. These observations indicate that fertility rates are positively correlated with female employment ratios and participation rates across O.E.C.D. countries during the period 1985-1996. Moreover, the time series observations show that fertility rates are procy...

BACKGROUND The recent rehabilitation literature does not include a thorough assessment of the employment concerns of people with MS. OBJECTIVE This article presents descriptive findings from a national survey of the employment concerns of Americans with multiple sclerosis (MS; N = 1,924), representing nine chapters of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. METHODS Respondents were asked t...