This research focuses on the role of occupational characteristics in the occupation-specific gender earnings gap for individuals whose highest level of education is less than a four-year college degree. Using data from the American Community Survey (ACS) and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Information Network (O*NET), I identify occupational characteristics that are associated with ...

This paper estimates the effect of capital imports on the wages of a large, representative sample of Hungarian machine operators. Using linked employer-employee data and detailed productand firm-level import data, we match the precise occupation description of each worker to the equipment imported by their employers. We find that machine operators working on imported machines earn 16 percent mo...

relaxation is one of the important mental skills in physical education and sportsactivities. relationship between relaxation and rhythmic exercises with anemphasis on flexibility-functional mechanisms of nervous system has receivedattention in recent studies. the aim of the present study was to investigate the effectof rhythmic exercises on deepening the relaxation of national judo athletes. fo...

In this paper a basic skill vector characterization of occupations is used to examine the relation between human capital specificity and occupational mobility. Specifically, the paper asks, how much occupational mobility is simply moving a given skill or task set around different occupations that use the same skill set, and how much involves major shifts in the skill vectors? The loss of specif...

The aim of the present study was to identify the volleyball skills that discriminate in favour of victory. Twenty-four games (n=24) from the Senior Men's Volleyball World Championship played in Italy in 2010 were chosen and analyzed with Data Volley software. The discriminating function was used to identify the discriminating variables, using a canonical structuring coefficient of |SC| ≥ .30. T...

The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between flow experience and goal orientation theory, as well as, the differences in flow experience based on the orthogonal model of goal orientation theory. Two hundred and seventy eight athletes completed the Task and Ego Orientation Sport Questionnaire based on how they usually feel. The challenge and skills ratings were complete...

Previously reported simulations using the E-Z Reader model of eye-movement control suggest that the patterns of eye movements observed with children versus adult readers reflect differences in lexical processing proficiency (Reichle et al., 2013). However, these simulations fail to specify precisely what aspect(s) of lexical processing (e.g., orthographic processing) account for the concurrent ...

BACKGROUND There appears to be a sense of disappointment with the product of contemporary nursing programs in Australia in that new graduate RNs are often referred to as not possessing appropriate skills by clinical colleagues. This work identifies the skills that the profession believes that newly graduating RN's should possess at the point of registration. METHODS A qualitative consensus me...

by author: We study race in the labor market by sending fictitious resumes to helpwanted ads in Boston and Chicago newspapers. To manipulate perceived race, resumes are randomly assigned African-Americanor White-sounding names. White names receive 50 percent more callbacks for interviews. Callbacks are also more responsive to resume quality for White names than for African-American ones. The ra...