Stimulating job demand:The design of effective hiring subsidies in Europe. The Netherlands

Viewing the hiring subsidies in the Netherlands over the past decade, there seems to be a constant change in Acts: abolishing existing regulations and introducing new ones. The main measures focus on people at a considerable distance from the labour market, including long-term unemployed welfare recipients and people who have a work disability. There have also been some incentives for employers to hire older workers or young people; however, these schemes are smaller and more often of a temporary nature

Laws for the Right to Work of Disabled People: The Italian Experience

This scholarly handbook covers all aspects of people with disabilities entering the workplace, including the legal aspects, transitions, types, and levels of employments, the impact of different disabilities, and the consideration of the intersection of disability with other identities such as gender and ethnicity. Comprehensive in scope, chapters look beyond organizational strategies that accommodate an employee’s disability and use case studies to highlight important issues and the individual’s perspective. The handbook concludes with a reflection on the work included in the book, what was not included and why, and makes recommendations for future disability research. Marking a major contribution to the study of workplace diversity and bringing together academics from various disciplines and global regions, this handbook covers a truly broad and diverse mix of approaches, theories, and models

Role of Local and/or Metastasis-directed Therapy in Patients with Hormone-sensitive M1a Prostate Cancer:A Systematic Review

CONTEXT: It remains unclear whether men with hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (PCa) metastasized to nonregional lymph nodes (M1a) benefit from prostate-directed therapy (PDT) and/or metastasis-directed therapy (MDT). OBJECTIVE: To systematically summarize the literature regarding oncological outcomes of de novo and recurrent M1a PCa patients treated with PDT and/or MDT. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION: We searched Medline (Ovid), Embase, and Scopus according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses guidelines for reports on oncological outcomes of de novo or recurrent hormone-sensitive M1a PCa patients treated with PDT (radical prostatectomy or radiotherapy) and/or MDT (nodal radiotherapy or salvage lymph node dissection) with or without androgen deprivation therapy. A descriptive data synthesis and a methodological quality assessment were performed to evaluate the impact of PDT and/or MDT on survival in M1a PCa patients. EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS: A total of 6136 articles were screened and 24 studies were included in this systematic review. In de novo M1a PCa patients, PDT was associated with improved oncological outcomes compared with no PDT. In recurrent M1a PCa, MDT could delay the need for systemic treatment in a selection of patients, but high-level evidence from prospective phase III randomized controlled trials is still awaited. CONCLUSIONS: This systematic review summarized the limited literature data on the management of M1a PCa. Subgroup analyses suggest a role for PDT plus systemic therapy in de novo M1a PCa. MDT to distant nodal metastases delayed the need for systemic therapy in recurrent disease, but robust data are lacking. The predominantly retrospective nature of the included studies and significant heterogeneity in study designs limit the strength of evidence. PATIENT SUMMARY: We reviewed the treatment of patients with prostate cancer that has spread to lymph nodes outside the pelvis without metastases in other organ systems. There is evidence that treatment of the primary prostate tumor improves outcomes in well-selected patients and that treatment targeting distant lymph node metastases can delay the start of systemic treatment.</p

Measuring Flexicurity: Precautionary Notes, a New Framework, and an Empirical Example

Recently, there has been an increase and abundance of literature measuring flexicurity across countries. However, there is yet to be any agreement on the definition of the key concepts of flexicurity as well as the framework in which to base one’s research. Due to this, the outcomes found in the existing studies are rather diverse, far from reaching a consensus, and can be misleading. This paper addresses the issues by first introducing a framework, namely, the various levels and stages of flexicurity, as well as introducing some key issues that should be addressed when doing flexicurity indicators research. In addition, an empirical example is given to show how the framework derived can be used to carry out flexicurity research, and to show how by not regarding these frameworks one can come to misleading outcomes

Non-standard employment relations and wages among school-leavers in the Netherlands

Contains fulltext : 55712.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access)Non-standard (alternatively, flexible) employment has become common in the Netherlands, and viewed as an important weapon for combating youth unemployment. However, if such jobs are 'bad', non-standard employment becomes a matter of concern. In addition, non-standard employment may hit the least qualified, excluding them from the primary segment of the labour market, where 'good' jobs are found. We first examine whether less-educated school leavers more often end up in a job with a non-standard employment contract than the higher educated. Then, we investigate the effect of having a non-standard employment contract on job advantages in terms of wages. The data come from three large-scale Dutch school leaver surveys as held in 2001. The results show: (a) less-educated school leavers indeed are more likely to have a non-standard contract than more highly educated ones, while (b) those in non-standard employment earn less in their jobs. A substantial part of these differences can be ascribed to the segment of the labour market in which school leavers work.23 p