In this article, we present and test a model that incorporates education-occupation matching into the migration decision. The literature on education-occupation matching shows that earnings are affected by how individuals' education matches that required by their occupation. Accordingly, individuals with more schooling than required by their occupation have an additional incentive to migrate: t...

conclusions according to the results, managers of the hospitals should increase staff’s commitment through paying attention to proper job designing. patients and methods in this descriptive and correlational study, 152 iranian employees of the hospitals (physicians, nurses, and administrative staff) were selected through stratified random sampling. data gathered using 3-part questionnaire of “d...

yahya alsamavi is one of iraqi's contemporary poets who has experienced iraqis’ predicament in the years of saddam dictatorship and in the following years of american occupation and the false liberty. he is a committed poet has devoted himself honestly to the iraqi people and their sufferings, while he is himself a victim of resistance on ideals and became homelessness. his true feelings r...

background: socioeconomic status (ses) can greatly affect the clinical outcome of medical  problems. we sought to assess the in‑hospital mortality of patients with the acute coronary syndrome (acs) according to their ses. methods: all patients admitted to tehran heart center due to 1 st ‑time acs between march 2004 and august 2011 were assessed. the patients who were illiterate/lowly educated (...

In this short intervention, I ask, What is at stake, politically and conceptually, in understanding militarism not as stable unfolding similarly across geographies, but deeply contingent on historical contextual specificities? How might we then unpack the question of home becoming a catalyst militarism? constitutes under saturated state control occupation where neither subtle nor benign enforce...

This article was acceptedfor publication August 29, 1996 Objective. Numerous studies in the occupational therapy literature have investigated the e./ficts ofadded-purpose (multidimensional, goal-oriented) occupation on perftr­ mance. Motor learning research has demonstrated that ftctors that enhance perftrmance measures do not neces­ sarily enhance motor learning. This study examined the e./fic...

May/June 2002, Volume 56, Number 3 The events of September 11, 2001, have changed the world forever (Schuster et al., 2001). As occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants, we struggle to respond to both the tangible and intangible consequences of these events for ourselves, our clients, our families, our profession, and our society. I am sure that many of you have been confront...

Lifetime job histories from a population-based, case-control study of gliomas diagnosed among adults in the San Francisco Bay area between August 1991 and April 1994 were evaluated to assess occupational risk factors. Occupational data for 476 cases and 462 controls were analyzed, with adjustment for age, gender, education, and race. Imprecise increased risks were observed for physicians and su...