BACKGROUND Research shows that unemployment reduces access to health care and vaccines and increases financial difficulty, family conflict, and other sources of stress that are known to suppress immune function. In addition, seasonal unemployment rates parallel seasonal influenza activity. Following a theory that argues that macroeconomic conditions affect population health, this paper examines...

The Nation’s poor have been a recurring issue in the body politic. Sometimes it has been in response to widespread distress, as in the Great Depression that helped launch Social Security, federally aided public assistance, and unemployment insurance. On other occasions, as in 1964, it has been the anomaly of that “other America” in the midst of plenty that commanded attention. Apparently the ri...

This study aims to find out whether there is an effect of economic growth, minimum wage, education and unemployment on poverty in the province. The type research quantitative, variables this are as a dependent variable provincial education, unemployment, independent variable. sample collection technique used annual data that was measured time series from 2007-2021. Which means 14 years. In popu...

OBJECTIVE To investigate quality of life (QOL) and related characteristics among an urban neo-poverty population in northeast China, and to compare this population with a traditional poverty cohort. DESIGN The research was a cross-sectional survey executed from June 2005 to October 2007, with a sample of 2940 individuals ages 36 to 55 in three different industrial cities of northeast China. D...

Unemployment, or worklessness, is firmly on the agenda of various Western countries. Although other challenges to citizens' well-being are being identified, as increasing labour market insecurities and rising poverty rates, the problem of non-work is given the main public attention. Even countries with no experience of high unemployment rates, such as Norway, have recently introduced welfare re...

At the same time that solutions were being sought for the problems of people reaching old age without income and savings in the depressed American economy of the 1930’s, another incomemaintenance problem was being intensively scrutinized-unemployment among able-bodied workers of all ages. If poverty in old age represented a burden no longer to be accepted, so, too, did the involuntary unemploym...

High and persistent unemployment has presented a major challenge for the welfare state from two directions. First, it has eroded the funding base and second, it has increased the demands on welfare programs because of the consequences for poverty and inequality resulting from high unemployment. This paper explores these latter effects using a range of national and international evidence. It is ...

This article reviews public works programmes as a way to alleviate poverty using experiences from around the world in general and South Africa in particular. It interrogates the targeting mechanisms including the question of who benefits, the type of benefit as well as the type of public works. The article argues that the design of public works must take cognizance of whether the initiative is ...

Labour market dimensions of poverty in Indonesia have not so far been the subject of detailed analysis, although sufficient reliable data is available to provide the basis for such research. This topic is of particular interest now, partly because jobs have grown very slowly and unemployment has risen in Indonesia since the 1997-98 financial crisis. The question arises as to whether the lack of...