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Illicit Drug Use, Employment, And Labor Force Participation, Michael French, M. Christopher Roebuck, Pierre Alexandre
Illicit Drug Use, Employment, And Labor Force Participation, Michael French, M. Christopher Roebuck, Pierre Alexandre
Michael T. French
Illicit drug use has declined among the U.S. adult population, but national surveys show the majority of illicit drug users are employed. Concern about workplace productivity, absenteeism, and safety has led many employers to establish employee assistance and drug testing programs. Given the sharp interest in workplace interventions, more information is needed about the relationships between drug use and labor market status. This study estimated the probability of employment and labor force participation for different types of drug users using nationally representative data from the 1997 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse. Results strongly indicated that chronic drug use was …
Flexible Qualification – A Key To Labour Law?, Ann Numhauser-Henning
Flexible Qualification – A Key To Labour Law?, Ann Numhauser-Henning
Ann Numhauser-Henning
This article argues that flexible knowledge (and thus continuous education) has the potential to out-date employment protection versus new forms of works as the touchstone oflabour law discourse in the Knowledge Society. Hitherto labour law discourse has usually focused on labour market segmentation in terms of a core group of permanently employed workers and more peripheral groups of workers in atypical employment. However, recent Swedish labour market statistics show that employability in terms of qualification appears to be the crucial quality, regardless of mode of employment, when it comes to the risk for the individual of being subjected to unfavourable …
Bacterial Species And Speciation, Frederick M. Cohan
Bacterial Species And Speciation, Frederick M. Cohan
Frederick M. Cohan
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Labor Supply Of Poor Residents In Metropolitan Miami, Florida: The Role Of Depression And The Co-Morbid Effects Of Substance Use, Michael T. French, Pierre K. Alexandre
Labor Supply Of Poor Residents In Metropolitan Miami, Florida: The Role Of Depression And The Co-Morbid Effects Of Substance Use, Michael T. French, Pierre K. Alexandre
Michael T. French
BACKGROUND: Depression represents one of the most common behavioral health problems among the workforce in the United States, with about 1 in every 20 employees experiencing this condition. A recent study estimated that in 1990 the economic costs of depressive disorders in the American workplace amounted to as much as $43 billion, with absenteeism alone accounting for $12 billion. Recently, economists have been focusing attention on the relationship between mental health and labor supply, but a lack of quality data sets containing detailed information on mental health and labor market variables represents a significant barrier to rigorous research. AIMS OF …
Bacillus Sonorensis Sp. Nov., A Close Relative Of Bacillus Licheniformis, Isolated From Soil In The Sonoran Desert, Arizona, M. M. Palmisano, L. K. Nakamura, K. E. Duncan, C. A. Istock, Frederick M. Cohan
Bacillus Sonorensis Sp. Nov., A Close Relative Of Bacillus Licheniformis, Isolated From Soil In The Sonoran Desert, Arizona, M. M. Palmisano, L. K. Nakamura, K. E. Duncan, C. A. Istock, Frederick M. Cohan
Frederick M. Cohan
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Using The Drug Abuse Screening Test (Dast-10) To Analyze Health Services Utilization And Cost For Substance Abusers In A Community-Based Setting, Michael T. French, M. Christopher Roebuck, Kerry Anne Mcgeary, Dale D. Chitwood, Clyde B. Mccoy
Using The Drug Abuse Screening Test (Dast-10) To Analyze Health Services Utilization And Cost For Substance Abusers In A Community-Based Setting, Michael T. French, M. Christopher Roebuck, Kerry Anne Mcgeary, Dale D. Chitwood, Clyde B. Mccoy
Michael T. French
The dual purpose of this study was to: (1) determine whether problematic drug users, defined through the Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST-10), exhibited differences in health services utilization and cost relative to a combined group of non-problematic drug users and non-drug users; and (2) assess whether the findings were similar to those for chronic drug users (CDUs) and injecting drug users (IDUs). Results showed that health services utilization and total cost were very similar for problematic drug users defined through quantity-frequency (i.e., CDU, IDU) and diagnostic (i.e., DAST-10) criteria. Findings suggest that quantity/frequency criteria for problematic drug use were reasonable …