the purpose of the present study was to determine the prevalence rate of mental disorders in factory workers in shahr-e-kord and brojen. following a pilot study and determination of cut-off point for the srq-24 questionnaire, the study was carried out in two stages. in the first stage, 503 subjects were administered the questionnaire and in the second stage, 148 subjects who had scores equal to...

In this article we assume two levels of skills and two classes of goods, one produced with a technology requiring high skills, the other produced with a technology that can be operated by both low and high skilled workers. Our model generates two distinct labour market regimes. In one regime we show technical change can be the cause of wage divergence between skilled and unskilled workers. This...

South Africa's manufacturing sector experiences declining growth and labour demand, increased imports of intermediate goods. The paper investigates the influence offshoring on employment wages for capital- labour-intensive industries skilled unskilled workers, using firm- employer–employee-level data. Unlike findings in developed countries, generally lowers firms increases decreases percentage ...

Over the last three decades labor market of most developed countries have experienced a sustained period upskilling. This means an overall increase in skill requirement jobs determined by demand for skilled labor. suggests that their has become more intensive, shifting towards workers relatively to unskilled workers. An analysis job growth Argentine between 1997 and 2009 using data from EPH, ev...

BACKGROUND As one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the Pearl River Delta of South China, Shenzhen attracts millions of migrant workers annually. The objectives of this study were to compare health needs, self-reported health and healthcare utilisation of insured and uninsured migrant workers in Shenzhen, China, where a new health insurance scheme targeting at migrant workers was initi...

The changing wage and employment structure in some OECD countries has been attributed to increased levels of education and technical change in favour of skilled workers. However, in the Netherlands and some other OECD countries the wages of skilled workers did not rise, whereas investment in skills rose dramatically. This paper offers a theory which is able to explain the dramatic increase in t...

In this paper, we first present a simple theoretical model of globalization between similar countries to motivate the empirical work that follows. Specifically, we examine the linkages between trade volumes and relative wages in a specialization model along the lines of Ethier (1982). The core of the empirical analysis involves bivariate time-series analysis. There we find some evidence of a re...

Previous research found that poor performers tend to overestimate how well their performance compares to others'. This unskilled and unaware effect has been attributed to poor performers' lack of metacognitive ability to realize their ineptitude. We contend that the unskilled are motivated to ignore (be unaware of) their poor performance so that they can feel better about themselves. We tested ...

Internationally, shortages in the nursing workforce, escalating patient demands, and financial constraints within the health system have led to the growth of unlicensed nursing support workers. Recently, in relation to the largest publicly funded health system (National Health Service), it was reported that extensive substitution of registered nurses with unskilled nursing support workers resul...