SELF Magazine Announces 7th Annual List of America's Healthiest Places for Women; Honolulu Is #1!
Where Does Your Region Rank? How Happy is Your Hometown? SELF Will Help You Lead a Healthier Life - No Matter Where You Live - By Sharing the Secrets of the Nation's Healthiest Places NEW YORK, Nov. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- As if you need another excuse to...

Loyalty Growing.
Despite a tight job market, the loyalty of American workers is growing. This is the finding of an annual study done by Chicago-based Aon Consulting, an employee benefits consulting company. Unemployment rates have dropped to their lowest level in 29 years. Yet employees remain loyal to their employers. And...

Is demography destiny? The role of structural and demographic factors in Australia's past and future labour supply.
Following the release of the Intergenerational Report, the Australian Treasury identified the levers to address the economic effects of demographic ageing as 'the three Ps': population, participation and productivity. To date, the first 'P', population, has been treated as an exogenous factor, with the common view being that there...

Zambia: beware of the Aids bandwagon; "African governments should be conscious of attempts by imperial forces to narrow down the continent's immense problems to only HIV/Aids and corruption," Zambia's former president, Frederick Chiluba, has warned. Martha Kabwe reports from Lusaka.
Former President Frederick Chiluba may have his own problems at home (with his former vice-president, Levy Mwanawasa, who is now president of the republic), but he takes no prisoners when attacked by foreigners. One such foreigner, Stephen Lewis, the UN secretary-general's special envoy for HIV/Aids in Africa, claimed in...

Economy and Race: Interactive Determinants of Property Crime in the United States, 1958-1995: Reflections on the Supply of Property Crime.
Introduction From social disorganization and routine activity perspectives, factors such as economic indicators, including unemployment and inflation, have frequently been used to study property crime (Smith, Devine, and Sheley, 1992; Cantor and Land, 1985; Devine, Sheley, and Smith, 1988). Economic frustration motivates criminality (a premise of routine...

Dualism in the German labor market? A nonparametric analysis with panel data.
In the 1990s, as unemployment figures increased and labor market deregulation initiatives were launched, there has been renewed interest in the possibility of a segmentation of the German labor market. Whereas most studies have relied on qualitative evidence, this paper utilizes data from the first five waves of the German...

Regional productivity and income convergence in Canada under increasing economic integration.
Regional disparities in such factors as wages and incomes have long been a concern of developed and developing countries. The concern has emanated from both equity and efficiency considerations. Equity issues arise if the gains from being part of a country appear to be unfairly divided, and especially if...

Classified information.
Young African American men were the last hired in this economic boom. Will they be the first fired? WITH CRIME RATES PLUMMETING ACROSS THE country, the tough-on-crime chorus has been crowing that the nation s social experiments with mandatory minimums, three-strikes-you're-out, and other punitive criminal-justice policies are...

Labour-market problems and crime in the transition from school to work.
A number of interrelated changes in the economy and labour market of advanced capitalist societies have been underway for some time (Drache and Gertler, 1991). Evidence of these changes can be found in the growth of part-time, part-year and temporary work, as well as an increasingly segmented labour market...

Clinton's economic policy?
At the point last winter when President Clinton's popularity, as measured by public opinion polls, seemed to defy reason and rose to new heights after accusations of gross personal improprieties, political analysts stretched the limits of their wisdom to find an explanation. They concluded, as with one voice, that the...