This paper estimates the impact of labor market rigidities on misallocation. To this end, we use a recent policy change in Belgium, leading to an increase employment protection for blue-collar workers and decrease white-collar workers. The wedge between marginal product cost - gap is used as measure Using rich data set universe Belgian firms, evidence shows that firm with 90% experienced after ...

Little is known about the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and work-related stress and its risk factors among white-collar businessmen and management workers that migrate to high-income developing countries. A structural questionnaire survey was administered to 156 white-collar Taiwanese management personnel of representative companies of their industries in Taiwan, who were assigned long...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of hand workload, especially computer use, on the incidence of severe, idiopathic median nerve lesions at the wrist (MNLW) in patients with idiopathic CTS. METHODS Data were prospectively collected for 444 patients with classic or probable CTS who were of working age and referred to our electrodiagnostic (EDX) laboratories. Clinical items recorded were age, ge...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of the workplace on the socioeconomic gradient of sickness absence. DESIGN Comparison of the relation between socioeconomic status and employee sickness absence in three different towns. SETTINGS The towns of Raisio, Valkeakoski, and Nokia in Finland. They are equal in size and regional social deprivation indices, located in the neighbourhood of a larger ...

Using Displaced Worker Survey data, this paper examines changes in the age distribution of displaced workers during the 1983–87 and 1993–97 periods. Older workers comprised a significantly larger fraction of displaced workers during the later period. Potential explanations for this phenomenon include demographic shifts in the labor force, changes in technology, and industry and occupational shi...

People generally possess a strong desire to construct positive, dignified work identities. However, this goal may be more challenging for some people, such as blue-collar workers, whose occupations may not offer qualities typically associated with workplace dignity. Interviews with 37 people from a blue-collar mining community reveal three central identity discourses about workplace dignity: Al...

BACKGROUND Neck-shoulder symptoms are frequent among workers. Psychosocial factors at work have been associated with neck-shoulder symptoms, but few studies have examined job strain, the combined effect of high psychological demands (PD) and low decision latitude (DL). AIMS To examine the association between psychosocial factors at work and the prevalence of self-reported neck-shoulder sympto...

BACKGROUND Chrysotile from the mine in Balangero, Italy is considered to be free of tremolite. In a cohort study of miners and millers only two pleural cancers were reported, a finding considered to indicate that chrysotile has a low potency for inducing mesothelioma. However, follow-up ended in 1987 and white-collar workers and the employees of subcontractors were not studied. METHODS To com...