STUDY DESIGN This was a cross-sectional study. PURPOSE The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of low back pain (LBP) and its association with individual factors and current job status among steel industry workers in Mashhad, Iran. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Several studies have been conducted on LBP and its related risk factors, some of which emphasized oc-cupational factors as t...

BACKGROUND The association between low socioeconomic status (SES) and high mortality from coronary heart disease is well-known. However, the role of SES in relation to the clinical outcome after primary percutaneous coronary intervention remains poorly understood. METHODS AND RESULTS We studied 7385 patients treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention. Participants were divided in...

Appendix D analyzes the bivariate relationships between a number of demographic and household factors and the likelihood of an adolescent being without health coverage. These include: parent’s insurance status, poverty and family income, adolescents’ living arrangements, race and ethnicity, parent’s marital status, parent’s education region and residence, and parent’s work status and other empl...

The University of Minnesota is committed to the policy that all persons shall have equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, marital status, public assistance status, veteran status, or sexual orientation. Abstract 1 Introduction 2

This paper studies the effects of English proficiency on employment of U.S. foreign-born immigrants, using data from the 2001 American Community Survey (ACS). It shows that English proficiency plays an important role in immigrants’ employment and its effects on employment patterns across genders are different. Probit regressions show that immigrants with a higher level of English proficiency ar...

OBJECTIVES Negative associations between non-employment and health among older people are well established and are potentially important for successful ageing. However, opportunities to improve health through re-employment or extending working lives are limited as later-life exits from employment are often unwanted and permanent. We aim to establish a greater understanding of the psychosocial m...

What role does self-employment play in the retirement process? Older Americans are staying in the labor force longer than prior trends would have predicted and many change jobs later in life. These job transitions are often within the same occupation or across occupations within wageand-salary employment. The transition can also be out of wage-and-salary work and into self employment. Indeed, n...

We develop a model where agents obtain information about job opportunities through an explicitly modeled network of social contacts. We show that an improvement in the employment status of either an agent’s direct or indirect contacts leads to an increase in the agent’s employment probability and expected wages, in the sense of first order stochastic dominance. A similar effect results from an ...