BACKGROUND Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries pose a significant risk to the careers of players in the National Football League (NFL). The relationships between draft round and position on return to play (RTP) among NFL players are not well understood, and the ability to return to preinjury performance levels remains unknown for most positions. PURPOSE To test for differences in RTP ra...

â â â â  â  abstract â  most debates about the role of tariff cuts on the level of employment and rate of wages in labor market have come out of well-known hecscher – ohlin and stopler – samuelson (hos) theorems. considering the fact that we have divided the workforce into skilled and unskilled labors the present paper assesses the impacts of tariff cuts on labor market indicators in iran. ...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: J 31 O18 R23 Keywords: Unskilled migrants Remittance Skilled–unskilled wage inequality Labor host region The present paper establishes a two-sector general equilibrium model and conduct the comparative static approach to investigate the impact exerted by an increase in the remittance rate of the unskilled migrants on the skilled–unskilled wage inequalit...

New automation technologies affect workers in a heterogeneous manner according to their demographic characteristics, skills, and the tasks they perform. In this paper we study effects of on labor market outcomes developing country, Chile. We focus our analysis impacts across cohorts. Does young differently than older workers? Do tend perform routine tasks? Are occupations more exposed negative ...

BACKGROUND Dry Eye Syndrome (DES) is a broad spectrum of uncomfortable ocular conditions that are caused by reduced production of tears or an increased tear evaporation rate. This study evaluated the relationship between symptoms of DES and occupational characteristics to identify the occupation-dependent differences in the prevalence of symptoms of DES using the Korean National Health and Nutr...

The California Department of Industrial Relations/Division of Worker's Compensation asked RAND to provide technical assistance in developing a fee schedule for home health services provided to injured workers. The fee schedule needs to address the full spectrum of home health services ranging from skilled nursing and therapy services to unskilled personal care or chore services that may be prov...

We document three facts: (i) Higher educated workers are more likely to moonlight; (ii) conditional on education, with higher wages less and (iii) the prevalence of moonlighting is declining over time for all education groups. develop an equilibrium model labor market explain these patterns. A dominating income effect explains negative correlation productivity in cross section downward trend ti...

Abstract This paper studies the impact of automation shocks on technological-knowledge level, skill premium (or wage inequality), real prices, output, and economic growth. To highlight mechanisms, we devise a task-based direct technical change model that allows us to analyze determinants threshold task, relative output prices between sectors, intra- inter-sectoral differences, polarization grow...