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Epidemiology and the Medical Burden of Diabetic Foot Ulcers Especially in Patients With Infection-A Population-Based Analysis From Germany. [PDF]

open access: yesInt Wound J
ABSTRACT Due to limited data on the epidemiology of diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) in Germany, especially for those infected, the study determined the prevalence and incidence of DFU and the associated medical burden. Anonymised claims data of 3.3 million insured lives were sourced from a statutory health insurance fund.
Wernecke J   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Comparison of Two Network-Theory-Based Methods for detecting Functional Regions

open access: yesBusiness Systems Research, 2020
Background: Functional regions are abstract, uniformly defined territorial units that form an important basis for many development strategies of a country or a region.
Drobne Samo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Moving during times of crisis: Migration, living arrangements and COVID-19 in South Africa

open access: yesScientific African, 2021
We explore flexibility in living arrangements during times of crisis by investigating adult mobility at various stages of the COVID-19 related initial lockdown in South Africa.
Dorrit Posel, Daniela Casale
doaj   +1 more source

Performance of Producer Cooperatives in Iran’s Agriculture Sector [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهشهای اقتصادی, 2010
The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of producer cooperatives (PCs) on rural development in Fars, Khorasan, Semnan, Golestan and Hamadan provinces of Iran in 2007.
Bijan Baseri   +2 more
doaj  

Job Search With Legal and Illegal Workers: A Comparative Static Analysis

open access: yesEconomics and Business, 2020
This paper incorporates government immigration policy variables in a job search and match framework to examine its implication on labour market outcomes. The main assumption is that illegal workers can be penalized by receiving lower equilibrium wages or
Ogbeifun Lawrence
doaj   +1 more source

Jobs’ Amenability to Working from Home: Evidence from Skills Surveys for 53 Countries

open access: yesEconomía, 2023
We use skills surveys from 53 countries to estimate jobs’ amenability to working from home (WFH). Our measure combines data on self-reported jobs’ characteristics and home internet access into a standardized measure.
Maho Hatayama   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The impact of co-national networks on asylum seekers' employment: Quasi-experimental evidence from Germany.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
Using novel registry data on persons receiving asylum welfare benefits in Germany for the period from 2010 to 2016, and quasi-experimental variation induced by German allocation policies, we identify the role that the size and composition of local co ...
Felix Stips, Krisztina Kis-Katos
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of Including Immigrants without Permanent Residence Status in the Public Health Insurance System in the Czech Republic

open access: yesReview of Economic Perspectives, 2016
Whether an individual can or cannot participate in the Czech public health insurance system depends on several characteristics, one of which is whether he/she has permanent residence status in the Czech Republic, and a second whether he/she is employed ...
Tepperová Jana, Zídková Hana
doaj   +1 more source

Wage discrimination against foreign workers in Russia

open access: yesRussian Journal of Economics, 2017
We try to determine with the help of the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition technique whether foreign workers are discriminated against in Russia. We use the Russian Ministry of Labor (Rostrud) data on migrants’ applications and the Russian Longitudinal ...
Elena Vakulenko, Roman Leukhin
doaj   +1 more source

Macroeconomic and structural properties of the Russian labor market: A cross-country comparison

open access: yesRussian Journal of Economics, 2017
We suggest a new way to identify salient features of the Russian labor market. Parameters of basic macroeconomic models pertinent to the Russian labor market are compared to a sample of other countries. We find that estimated values of Okun's coefficient
Evsey Gurvich, Elena Vakulenko
doaj   +1 more source

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