Parental occupation, coercive power, and behavioral compliance

Childhood cancer and parental occupation in Finland.

A case-control study was conducted of the occupations of parents of children under 15 with diagnosed malignancies. The total series contained all childhood cancers cases reported to the Finnish Cancer Registry during the period 1959-75. The parental occupations, recorded at the time of pregnancy, were collected from maternity welfare centres. The cases were analysed as a singly group or as subg...

Goliath’s Curse: Coercive Threats and Asymmetric Power

States typically issue compellent threats against considerably weaker adversaries, yet their threats often fail+ Why? Expanding on a standard model of international crisis bargaining, I argue that a theory of reputation-building can help shed light on this puzzle+ The model casts reputation as a strategic problem, showing that challengers issuing compellent threats have incentives to anticipate...

Impact of Manager’s Reward Power and Coercive Power on Employee’s Job Satisfaction: A Comparative Study of Public and Private Sector

Employees’ attitude towards his/her job differs across organization’s sector. The present study aimed to find out the differences in employee’s attitude in public and private sector. For this purpose, managers’ reward power and coercive power were taken as independent variables and their impact on employees’ job satisfaction (dependent variable) was examined in both sectors. Sample of 130 respo...

Socioeconomic status parental occupation and neural tube defects

Parental occupation and childhood cancer: review of epidemiologic studies.

Parental occupational exposures might affect childhood cancer in the offspring through genetic changes in the ovum or sperm or through transplacental carcinogenesis. The 24 published epidemiologic studies of this association have all used case-control designs, with controls generally selected from birth certificates or from general population sampling. Occupational exposures were inferred from ...