This article examines how sexual orientation may be relevant to the study of occupations and the practice of occupational therapy. It is suggested that a lesbian, gay, or bisexual orientation may influence the occupations in which a person engages, the symbolic interpretation of those occupations, and the environmental contingencies of those occupations, and thus is an appropriate topic for occ...

The term high-tech has always denoted a very ambiguous and amorphous concept. An industry or an occupational field that is commonly known as high-tech one year could be using technology or skills that are considered to be standard only a few years later. Low-skilled workers can be found in industries known as high-tech, and most people would not consider these workers to be employed in high-tec...

BACKGROUND Several studies have investigated the relationship between specific occupations and suicide mortality, as suicide rates differ by profession. The aim of this study was to investigate suicide mortality ratios across broad occupational groups in Greece for both sexes in the period 2000-2009. METHODS Data of suicide deaths were retrieved from the Hellenic Statistical Authority and com...

Digital technologies such as social media have profoundly affected people’s work and their occupations. While research has started to examine how people work with digital technologies, much less is still known about how the use of these technologies participates in the formation of new occupations. Building upon existing literatures on the formation of occupations, digital technologies, and ele...

The effectiveness of occupational health and safety management systems (OHSMS) can be understood through analysis of surveys such as the experiences of exposure to occupational hazards by Australian nursing occupations. How effectively OHSMS are implemented in the Australian health industry is unclear as few studies describe current hazard exposure patterns or the impact of OHSMS in the Austral...

Face age progression, which aims to predict the future looks, is important for various applications and has been received considerable attentions. Existing methods and datasets are limited in exploring the effects of occupations which may influence the personal appearances. In this paper, we firstly introduce an occupational face aging dataset for studying the influences of occupations on the a...

The purpose of this study was to explore and gain an understanding of how habits are experienced when performing daily occupations after a stroke. In-depth interviews were conducted with 7 participants and a constant comparative method was used for data analysis. Four men and three women with stroke between the ages of 42 and 82 years participated in the study. The interviews were conducted 1.5...

The gender segregation of occupations is an enduring feature of the labour market, and pay in femaledominated occupations remains lower than in male-dominated occupations. However, recent changes in the occupational structure have possibly altered the relationship between occupational segregation and the gender pay gap. Women’s skills are increasingly in demand, and this is reducing the gender ...

A long-running debate in labour economics concerns the interpretation of industry and occupational wage differentials. One view is that these reflect compensating differentials for mostly unmeasured aspects of jobs: utilities are equalised between industries and occupations, but wages are not. Alternatively, there may be labour market rents: identical workers in some industries and occupations ...