The stability of the inter-firm wage structure across occupations is analysed. Employers define clusters of occupations to whom they apply a similar pay standard. These links between occupations are especially strong at the bottom of the qualification and wage ladders.  2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.

The image of the muscular manly mineworker was culturally prevalent in first half twentieth century, and trope hypermasculinity miners has persisted popular scholarly representations. How bodies formed part construction miners’ masculine identities is a crucial but overlooked aspect. This article explores embodied masculinity at different moments lifecycle within spaces home, work, wider commun...

We present a system to acquire knowledge on the activities of people engaged in certain occupations. While most of the previous studies acquire phrases related to the occupation, our system acquires pairs of a verb and one of its arguments, which we call activities. Our system acquires activities from sentences written by people engaged in the target occupations as well as from sentences whose ...

We use data from the Labour Force Survey to show that employed and unemployed job seekers in Great Britain originate from different occupations and find jobs in different occupations. We find substantial differences in occupational mobility between job seekers: employed job seekers are most likely to move to occupations paying higher average wages relative to their previous occupation, while un...

BACKGROUND A number of studies have shown variations in the occurrence of alcoholism between different socioeconomic groups and occupations, but it has not been clear to what extent this is related to the average alcohol consumption in the same socioeconomic groups or occupations. METHODS The relationship between socioeconomic group and occupation and hospital discharge 1981-1983 due to 'diag...

BACKGROUND Infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) can lead to a range of clinical illnesses. OBJECTIVES To examine hazards of hepatitis B virus associated with clinical departments and occupations; among health care workers in Public Teaching Hospitals in Khartoum State, Sudan. METHODS The study was a cross sectional, facility-based study. It was conducted on stratified two-stage cluster ra...

The main findings reported by recent epidemiological studies on paternal occupations and birth defects are reviewed, and the main limitations associated with these studies discussed. Epidemiological studies on paternal occupations and birth defects were reviewed for the period 1989 to 1999 inclusive. Systematic searches were made with search engines with related keywords. There were several com...

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...