The Opioid Epidemic Was Not Caused by Economic Distress but by Factors That Could Be More Rapidly Addressed

2021 ◽  
Vol 695 (1) ◽  
pp. 276-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Currie ◽  
Hannes Schwandt
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Prescription Opioids ◽  
Market Opportunity ◽  
Opioid Epidemic ◽  
Health Care Market ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Economic Distress ◽  
New Generation

Without the opioid epidemic, American life expectancy would not have declined prior to 2020. The epidemic was sparked by the development and marketing of a new generation of prescription opioids, and the behavior of opioid providers is still helping to drive it. Little relationship exists between the opioid crisis and contemporaneous measures of labor market opportunity: cohorts and areas that experienced poor labor market conditions do show lagged increases in opioid mortality, but the effect is modest relative to the scale of the epidemic. We argue that specific policies and features of the U.S. health care market, especially liberal prescribing of opioids, led to the current crisis. It will not be possible to quickly reverse depressed economic conditions, but it is possible to implement policies that would reduce the number of new opioid addicts and save the lives of many who are already addicted.

STATE REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT AND EMPLOYMENT OF YOUTH IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-91
Author(s):  
Комарова ◽  
Marina Komarova ◽  
Агаркова ◽  
Darya Agarkova ◽  
Матвеева ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Young People ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
The Russian Federation

The article describes the main issues of state regulation of youth employment. The authors updated the problems of labor socialization of young people in the Russian socio-economic conditions. The article focuses on the legal regulation of this sphere both at the national and regional levels. Reasonable measures aimed at increasing competitiveness and professionalization of the young generation in the labor market conditions are substantiated.

Business management in the light of cultural diversity in the labor market

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-44
Author(s):  
René Pawera ◽  
Monika Lavrovičová ◽  
Lucia Húsenicová
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Inequality

An important element of the management of modern companies and organizations is the proper use of diversity management and equal opportunities, aimed at eliminating discrimination in the labor market. The paper summarizes the starting points for these processes in the labor market. It describes the tendencies of the development of the solved problem in the context of the labor market conditions of the Slovak Republic. Key words: labor market inequality, equal opportunities management, diversity management

scholarly journals Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Romanian Labor Market

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 271
Author(s):  
Carmen Valentina Radulescu ◽  
Georgiana-Raluca Ladaru ◽  
Sorin Burlacu ◽  
Florentina Constantin ◽  
Corina Ioanăș ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Semantic Differential ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Unemployed People ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Main Effects ◽  
The Impact

The present research aims to establish the impact that the current crisis situation the planet is facing, namely the COVID-19 pandemic, has had so far on the Romanian labor force market. In this context, given the lack of information and information regarding this pandemic and its effects, the administration of a questionnaire among the population was considered to identify the research results. The method of semantic differential and the method of ordering the ranks were used for the interpretation of the results. With the help of this questionnaire, it will be possible to answer the question of the research in this study: What are the main effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Romanian labor market? The main results showed that the COVID-19 pandemic affected the Romanian workforce; the respondents of the applied questionnaire claimed that they obtained better results and maintained a similar income, but the health crisis also influenced the mentality of employees, with respondents stating that in the event of changing jobs, they would consider it very important for the new employer to ensure the conditions for preventing and combating COVID-19, as well as complex health insurance. However, analyzing at the macroeconomic level, it was found that the COVID-19 pandemic induced an increase in the number of unemployed people in the Romanian labor market.

Local Labor-Market Opportunity and Adolescent Delinquency

Social Forces ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 1509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul E. Bellair ◽  
Vincent J. Roscigno
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Market Opportunity ◽  
Adolescent Delinquency ◽  
Local Labor Market ◽  
Labor Market Opportunity

De arbeidsmarkt van de Nederlandse gezondheidszorg als ‘patiënt’: een diagnose en enkele behandeladviezen

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Batenburg ◽  
Margo Brouns
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Training System ◽  
Health Care Market ◽  
Labor Market Policy ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Patient Diagnosis ◽  
Dutch Health

The labor market of the Dutch health sector as patient: diagnosis and some advices for treatment The labor market of the Dutch health sector as patient: diagnosis and some advices for treatment In this article we discuss the labor market and job structure of the health care in the Netherlands. The health care market is under cost and capacity pressure which calls for a fundamental change of the job and training system. A meta-analysis based on two leading trend reports shows that there is a watershed between the labor market for physicians and non-physicians. The labor market for doctors is centrally planned, while for the much larger group of nurses the labor market is not governed. Another observation is that bottlenecks are mainly approached by increasing the capacity, less by innovations in the educational and occupational structure. Following this analysis, this article advocates for a comprehensive labor market policy that takes into account different segments of care, that require different skills mixes and competence bundles. We also argue that segmentation on the regional level is required to achieve a demand-based health labor market policy.

scholarly journals The Persistent Effects of Initial Labor Market Conditions for Young Adults and Their Sources

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 168-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Till von Wachter
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Early Exposure ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Risky Alcohol ◽  
Labor Market Entry ◽  
Risky Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Age Patterns

Unlucky young workers entering the labor market in recessions suffer a range of medium-to long-term consequences. This paper summarizes the findings of the growing empirical literature on this subject and uses it to assess economic models of career development. The literature finds large initial effects on earnings, labor supply, and wages that tend to fade after ten to fifteen years in the labor market, and that are accompanied by changes in occupation, job mobility, and employer characteristics. Adverse initial labor market entry also has persistent effects on a range of social outcomes, including timing and completed fertility, marriage and divorce, criminal activities, attitudes, and risky alcohol consumption. There is also evidence that early exposure to depressed labor market lowers health and raises mortality in middle age, patterns accompanied by a reopening of earnings gaps.

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