OBJECTIVE To evaluate the cross-cultural validity of the Demand-Control Questionnaire, comparing the original Swedish questionnaire with the Brazilian version. METHODS We compared data from 362 Swedish and 399 Brazilian health workers. Confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses were performed to test structural validity, using the robust weighted least squares mean and variance-adjusted (WLSM...

The effects of working hours on health were examined taking psychological job strain into account. White-collar workers employed at the main office of a Japanese manufacturing company provided data for analysis done in 1997. The eligible subjects were 286 workers aged 20-39. Causal relationships between working hours, health, and psychological job strain were examined by covariance structure an...

Previous studies have established that work intensification was an important feature of European labor markets during much of the 1990s [Green and McIntosh, 2001; Green, 2001; Burchell, Lapido, and Wilkinson, 2002]. In the UK, this process was the continuation of one of the processes of change at workplaces that had begun at least several years earlier during the 1980s. Following from these fin...

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...

September 2011 this is a rough and incomplete first draft please do not distribute or quote Abstract: Recent theoretical work has demonstrated that holdout is the appropriate efficiency justification for eminent domain. In parallel, recent empirical work has demonstrated that state legislatures either grant discretion to local authorities, or constrain them from using eminent domain. This paper...

This study investigates the factors affecting acquirers’ allocation of purchase price between goodwill and identifiable intangible assets with finite lives. SFAS 142 replaces goodwill amortization with periodic impairment tests that are based on fair value estimates, while most identifiable intangible assets are still amortized over finite useful lives. As a result of the differential accountin...

Although scholars and practitioners promote creative uses of discretion in the delivery public services, there is limited empirical research that explains through which activities street-level develop solutions. Based on over 300 hours ethnographic observations child family practitioners, we demonstrate pattern collective deliberate experimenting encompasses discretion. The development this sub...

Zusammenfassung Anonymität oder markierte Pseudonymität deuten an, dass die Autor:in eines Textes sich in Gefahr befindet. Die Nichtnennung des Namens soll vor negativen Konsequenzen schützen. Ein solcher Schutz wäre bei einer fiktionalen Erzählung eigentlich nicht nötig, da Erfundenheit von Handlung und Figuren referenzialisierende Lesarten ausschließen sollte. Trotzdem werden auch fiktionale ...