Maciej Kozlowski from Univerity of Lodz, Poland states in his article 'The Consequences of the Privatization Process for Employee-Owned Companies – Some Evidence' that the success of the deep restructuring of economic relations in Polish economy depends primarily on the effectiveness of the reform aimed at restructuring of ownership in all sectors. The results of these processes of democratization include a growth in interest in worker ownership and enterprises managed by employees. These processes have assumed the form of the growing participation of employees in running the company. Employees have associated the changes resulting from the aforementioned factors first and foremost with an improvement in working conditions, with an increase in job attractiveness, with a growth in the influence on decisions made, as well as with financial benefits. Read more click here
Suchitra S Kumar from G N Khalsa College, Mumbai, India attempts to test in her article 'Health Deprivation-A Gender-based Analysis' whether women systematically get less health care than their male siblings in Mumbai. The data are drawn from a survey of 200 women and their male siblings. The regression models used explicitly take account of health care factors. The results show that there is no significant difference between the health expenditures made between men and women in a family. Read more click here