BACKGROUND Musculoskeletal injuries (MSIs) persist as the leading category of occupational injury in health care. Limited evidence exists regarding MSIs for occupations other than direct patient care providers. An evaluation of the risks, causes and activities associated with MSIs that includes non-patient care health care occupations is warranted. AIMS To examine the risks and causes of time...

Richard Midford *, David R. Foxcroft , Helen Cahill , Robyn Ramsden , Leanne Lester e a School of Education, Charles Darwin University (CDU), 0909 NT, Australia Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Oxford OX3 0BP, United Kingdom c The University of Melbourne, Level 5, 100 Leicester Street, Carlton, VIC 3010, Australia Royal Far West, 19-21 South Steyne Street, Manly, NSW 2095, Australia Unive...

This paper analyzes the earnings effect of skill-biased technological change (SBTC), focusing on the comparison of science and engineering (S&E) and non-S&E occupations. In the analysis, we assert that S&E occupations and non-S&E occupations differ in the nature of skill requirements and their susceptibility to technological change; and consequently the earnings effects of SBTC also demonstrate...

This article compares women and men’s attainment of workplace authority in femaledominated, mixed, and male-dominated occupations. It is based on a representative mobility study of Jewish women in the Israeli labor force conducted in 1991–1992. Two sets of hypotheses are offered based on two competing theories. The first theory predicts that in female occupations women have more influence and m...