This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. Specifically, we merge information on individual characteristics from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1984-2009) with detailed local labour market characteristics, and we then exploit the longitudinal component of the data to determine how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time. We find that immigrants to...

As one might expect, blue-collar workers generally experience more job-related injuries' than white-collar employees, in both relative and absolute terms. What is surprising, however, is the magnitude of this difference between the two groups . A new injury index by occupation indicates that laborers had injuries at a level almost four times the average while operatives and craftworkers incurre...

knowing that in distribution of khoms according to quran and imamid fiqh three portions out of six relates to needy sayyids so called bani hashim, the question is that are the hashimis who their mothers are sayyide - with non - sayyid father - deserved for khoms? as we know, mother-related children are legitimate, and the same as father-related ones, and there is no difference between them acco...

Paul E. Gabriel is professor of economics, School of Business Administration, Loyola University of Chicago; and Susanne Schmitz is professor of economics, Center for Business and Economics, Elmhurst College. E-mail: pgabrie@luc. edu E-mail: susans@ elmhurst.edu Recent analyses of gender employment patterns suggest that occupational differences between men and women are a persistent presence in ...

Abstract Background ‘Sit less-move more' has been a common advice to improve health of adults. Research indicates that this might be enhancing among adults with sedentary occupations but not physically active such as cleaners. This may explained by the considerable differences in 24-h physical behaviors between and occupations. To provide scientific approach encourage research on for those occu...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has developed three sets of occupational employment projections for 1978 to 1990 based on varying outlooks of the future economy.' Although the assumptions that differentiate these scenarios result in various rates of growth for most jobs, changes in the occupational composition of total employment during these years are similar for all versions and generally corr...

This study describes the criminal careers of offenders convicted of fraud, distinguishing different career dimensions such as intermittency, versatility and specialization. Results indicate that most fraud offenders are versatile in the sense that they also have significant criminal records for other serious offending (that is, not fraud). At the same time they are also specialized in fraud. Wh...

Incidents of organized cybercrime are rising because of criminals are reaping high financial rewards while incurring low costs to commit crime. As the digital landscape broadens to accommodate more internet-enabled devices and technologies like social media, more cybercriminals who are not native English speakers are invading cyberspace to cash in on quick exploits. In this paper we evaluate th...

This paper examines which factors raise the probability a worker will be promoted using the NLSY dataset. While other papers have tried to explain what affects a worker’s probability of receiving a promotion, this is the first paper to look at the impact of social ability. We use the respondent’s self reported sociability at age eighteen and whether the individual participated in clubs during h...