Social Cognitive Career Theory suggests that students' preparedness for the school-to-work transition is a developmental process. Middle school children explore various careers, obtain feedback about their academic progress, and develop career self-efficacy and outcome expectations. These processes advance provisional educational/occupational goals. The literature has suggested articulations be...

The Occupational Position of Employed Hispanic Women Systematic investigation of the labor market experiences of Hispanic origin women is a relatively new endeavor in the field of social stratification. This study contributes to the research on ethnic stratification by comparing the importance of achieved and ascribed characteristics as criteria for assigning occupational positions to women of ...

Analysis of the Workplace Employment Relations Survey 2004 employee data shows striking differences in levels of overall job satisfaction among occupational groups. The examination is based on the 81 Minor Occupation groupings in UK Standard Occupational Classification 2000 classification. Taking a possible specific occupational effect possibly conditioned by resonance effects, as a theoretical...

At present, in Russia, as many countries, the issues of reducing industrial injuries, well increasing effectiveness measures taken by employers field safety and introducing a culture safe work, are widely discussed. The relevance topic is due to fact that Russia participant Vision Zero campaign, founded International Social Security Association (ISSA) Institution Occupational Safety Health (IOS...

People living with disability in Australia face additional challenges compared to other people within the community. These challenges include having poorer access to health services, lower levels of engagement in meaningful education and fewer employment opportunities (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2010a). Consequently, Australians with disabilities are 2.5 times more likely to experience po...

OBJECTIVE Comparisons of the changing patterns of inequalities in occupational mortality provide one way to monitor the achievement of equity goals. However, previous comparisons have not corrected for numerator/denominator bias, which is a consequence of the different ways in which occupational details are recorded on death certificates and on census forms. The objective of this study was to m...

BACKGROUND It is unclear when in the life course do social inequalities in inflammation emerge. We examined whether the association between socioeconomic position (SEP) and C-reactive protein (CRP) is determined at conception, in childhood, adolescence or adulthood in 1484 participants from the population-based Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study. METHODS Five variants of the CRP gene we...

Editor-Seaton and Agius are right.' Occupational medicine is too important to remain either a luxury optional extra, or an industrial and academic ghetto. Over two million people every year have ill health because of their work. More days of work are lost because of occupational asthma than strikes, and work related asbestos diseases are set to become the biggest single killer of adult men. Tra...