Some researchers have suggested that oxidative damage may be one of the mechanisms linking job stress with coronary heart disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between job stress indicators and oxidative biomarkers. The study included 567 subjects (272 men, 295 women) who answered questionnaires related to their work and underwent a medical examination. Job stress ev...

In this study we examine the widely held view that intra-industry trade (IIT) entails relatively low adjustment costs. We construct a panel of industry level trade, production and employment data for Ireland. IIT is calculated using the conventional Grubel-Lloyd index as well as alternative measures of marginal IIT. Our measure of labour adjustment is defined as the share of intra-industry job ...

This paper investigates some dynamic aspects of the “smooth adjustment hypothesis” that is commonly associated with intraindustry trade (IIT). The analysis is conducted on a panel of plant-level employment data and industry-level production and trade data for Ireland. Rates of intraindustry job turnover are used as a proxy for labor-market adjustment. Three findings stand out. First, a measure ...

This paper illustrates how the destruction of firm-specific organizational capital associated with changes in firm-level employment can influence the behavior of aggregate job flows, even in the presence of heterogeneity across firms and even in the absence of aggregate shocks. Our analysis highlights the potential importance of the distinction between adjustment costs that are associated with ...

BACKGROUND The excess risk of fatal and non-fatal cerebrovascular disease in people from low socioeconomic positions is only partially explained by conventional cerebrovascular risk factors. This has led to the suggestion that poor psychosocial work environments provide important additional explanatory power. However, little evidence is available for women. METHODS We examined whether job dem...

OBJECTIVE To study the relation between birthweight of term infants and maternal occupation. METHODS Information on job titles since the age of 16, and sociodemographic and other lifestyle factors were obtained by means of questionnaires as part of the Avon longitudinal study of pregnancy and childhood (ALSPAC), from a cohort of 14,000 pregnant women. The British 1990 standard occupational cl...

A recent study indicated that serum nitrite and nitrate (NOx) is inversely associated with general fatigue. The purpose of this study was to confirm the negative association between nitric oxide (NO) and fatigue and to examine whether NO can prevent fatigue caused by job strain. The subjects, 570 workers (272 men and 298 women), answered self-administered questionnaires and underwent a medical ...

This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the relationship between labour demand and job-to-job movement at the macro-level. A labour demand equation is modelied, which distinguishes the adjustment costs into net and gross adjustment costs. The paper derives and simulates the exact upper bounds of the marginal hiring costs of an empioyed worker, for which a quit between two f...

We assessed whether job demand and job control have independent effects on psychological symptoms or whether job control modifies effect of job demand; we also assessed whether rank modified associations between job strain and psychological symptoms. We used the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Checklist (PCL-C), General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12), Chalder Fatigue Scale, a checklist ...