AIM To investigate whether the effect of socioeconomic position on risk of myocardial infarction (MI) is mediated by differential exposure or differential susceptibility to psychosocial work environment. METHODS Data were used from three prospective population studies conducted in Copenhagen. A total of 16 214 employees, 44% women, aged 20-75 years, with initial examination between 1974 and 1...

BACKGROUND Although the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control prioritizes monitoring of tobacco use by population-based surveys, information about the prevalence and patterns of tobacco use in sub-Saharan Africa is limited. We provide country-level prevalence estimates for smoking and smokeless tobacco (SLT) use and assess their social determinants. METHODS We analyzed population-based data...

PURPOSE To determine whether types of optical correction for refractive error are associated with sex, social class, and occupational group in the working population. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out among employees in Catalonia (Spain) aged 16 to 65 years who underwent the Asepeyo Prevention Society health examination in 2009 (86,831 participants: 59,397 men and 27,421 women)....

In this paper we demonstrate that intra-industry trade (or FDI) between identical countries could produce the observed deterioration in the relative wages of unskilled workers. This involves a model of North-North integration through either increased trade flows or increased MNE-based production. Our motivation in this regard is arguments to the effect that trade cannot be responsible for the o...

BACKGROUND Active management of the third stage of labor (AMTSL) describes interventions with the common goal to prevent postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). In low- and middle-income countries, implementation of AMTSL is hampered by shortage of skilled birth attendants and a high percentage of home deliveries. Task shifting of specific AMTSL components to unskilled birth attendants or self-administrat...

Labor markets in all Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) economies are under stress. Two main factors generate the pressure, although the precise contributions of these factors to unemployment and wage growth remain to be determined. The first factor is an apparent shift in the bias of technology toward skilled-labor-intensive methods of production. The second factor is...

Following Keen and Marchand (1997), the paper analyses the effect of fiscal competition on the composition of public spending in a model where capital and skilled workers are mobile while low skilled workers are immobile. Taxes are levied on capital and labour. Each group of workers benefits from a different kind of public good. Mobility of skilled workers provides an incentive for jurisdiction...

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...