OBJECTIVE This study examined the occupations of mothering very young children with physical disabilities. METHOD Two single, urban, Black mothers in their mid-20s were interviewed with a semistructured protocol. The audiotaped, transcribed data were analyzed with a phenomenological method. RESULTS The context of the challenging urban environment was a constant influence that shaped the par...

Associations between occupational factors and characteristics of the social network in people with persistent mental illness were investigated. Participant groups (N= 103) representing three types of daily occupations--working or studying, visiting community-based activity centers, and having no regular daily occupation--were selected for the study. Participants were assessed regarding social i...

Occupational licensure has become one of the most significant labor market regulations in the United States that also may restrict the interstate movement of workers. We analyze the interstate migration of twenty-two licensed occupations. Using an empirical strategy that controls for unobservable characteristics that drive long-distance moves, we find that individuals in occupations with state-...

We examine the ability of male immigrants to transfer their occupational human capital using information from the O*NET and a unique dataset that includes both the last source country occupation and the first four years of occupations in Canada. We first augment a model of occupational choice and skill accumulation to derive predictions about the cross-border transferability of occupational hum...

This paper investigates the cross-occupation effect of offshorability on wage rates by examining the occupation switching behavior of workers previously employed in highly offshorable occupations. Instead of looking at the labor market for occupations that are traditionally vulnerable to import competition, we study the destination occupations for the workers displaced from import-competing sec...

گرایش زنان به مشاغل مردانه، از جمله پدیده های اجتماعی است که در سال های اخیر دیده می شود. یکی از این مشاغل، شغل پلیسی است که تحقیق حاضر در صدد پاسخگویی به این سوال اصلی است که چه عواملی بر گرایش زنان به شغل پلیسی موثر است. تئوری های به کار رفته در این تحقیق نظریات فمینیستی، نظریات مراجع و علمای دینی در خصوص اشتغال زنان، تئوری تقسیم کار جنسیتی، نظریه تفاوت بیولوژیکی، تئوری جداسازی بازار کار و تئ...