the purpose of the present study was to determine the prevalence rate of mental disorders in factory workers in shahr-e-kord and brojen. following a pilot study and determination of cut-off point for the srq-24 questionnaire, the study was carried out in two stages. in the first stage, 503 subjects were administered the questionnaire and in the second stage, 148 subjects who had scores equal to...

The consensus view among political scientists is that the subjective social status of low-skilled workers has declined over last decades, and this loss working class seen as contributing to rise radical right. We examine micro-foundation claim by tracing evolution for different classes in Europe US. use all available survey rounds International Social Survey Programme 1987–2017 replicate findin...

AIMS To assess if low occupational class was an independent predictor of Type 2 diabetes in men in Sweden over a 35-year follow-up, after adjustment for both conventional risk factors and psychological stress. METHODS A random population-based sample of 6874 men aged 47-56 years without a history of diabetes was divided into five occupational classes and the men were followed from 1970 to 200...

The consequences of introducing or tightening time limits on receiving high unemployment benefits are studied in a shirking model. Stricter time limits have an ambiguous impact on the net wage, and changes of utility levels of employed workers and recipients of high unemployment benefits have the same sign as the variation in the net wage. The utility differential between the two groups of unem...

We construct a general equilibrium version of the Krusell et al. Econometrica 68, 1029, 2000 model with capital–skill complementarity. We assume several sources of growth simultaneously: exogenous growth of skilled and unskilled labour, equipment-specific technological progress, skilled and unskilled labouraugmenting technological progress and Hicks-neutral technological progress. We derive res...

This paper presents a model which captures the technological spillovers created by foreign direct investment in Transition Economies. Skill-biased technological change is linked with endogenous labor supply which allows for unemployment. The technological spillover is divided into a neutral technological change and a skill-biased technological change. The first effect makes labor and capital mo...

This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are disproportionally skilled. The brain drain from the poor to the rich region is accompanied by stronger incentives to acquire skills even for immobile workers. ...

In the course of studies of the epidemiology of coronary heart disease the suggestion arose that deaths from this condition in middle age may be less common among men engaged in physically active work than among those in " sedentary " jobs (Morris, Heady, Raffle, Roberts, and Parks, 1953). In testing this hypothesis an analysis was made of data in the Registrar General's Decennial Supplement fo...