Construction safety personnel's perceptions of safety training practices

S Demirkesen, D Arditi - International Journal of Project Management, 2015 - Elsevier
The effectiveness of safety training practices is an important part of safety management on a
construction site. Safety professionals' perceptions of the effectiveness of training practices …

Do immigrants work in riskier jobs?

PM Orrenius, M Zavodny - Demography, 2009 - Springer
Recent media and government reports suggest that immigrants are more likely to hold jobs
with poor working conditions than US-born workers, perhaps because immigrants work in …

Trajectories of physical functioning among older adults in the US by race, ethnicity and nativity: Examining the role of working conditions

AR Pebley, N Goldman, T Andrasfay, B Pratt - PLoS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Latinos in the US live significantly longer than non-Latino whites, but spend more years
disabled. Differentials in socioeconomic status account for part, but not all, of the difference …

Assessing the economic worth of public–private partnerships

AE Boardman, AR Vining - International Handbook on Public …, 2010 - elgaronline.com
Many governments throughout the world are using public–private partnerships (P3s) to
provide public goods, especially for infrastructure. The allure of P3s is obvious: they appear …

Migrant workers in Italy: an analysis of injury risk taking into account occupational characteristics and job tenure

M Giraudo, A Bena, G Costa - BMC public health, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background Migrants resident in Italy exceeded 5 million in 2015, representing
8.2% of the resident population. The study of the mechanisms that explain the differential …

What drives the perception of health and safety risks in the workplace? Evidence from European labour markets

T Leoni - Empirica, 2010 - Springer
Worker perceptions of job-related health risk are a little-studied dimension of heterogeneity
in the labour market. According to information from the European Working Conditions …

Fatal and non‐fatal occupational injuries and diseases among migrant and native workers in South Korea

S Cha, Y Cho - American journal of industrial medicine, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Background Migrant workers now represent an increasing percentage of workers in Korea,
but few studies have evaluated work‐related health risks in this population. In this study, we …

The communicative needs of Bangladeshi economic migrants: The functional values of host country languages versus English as a lingua franca

P Seargeant, EJ Erling, M Solly… - Journal of English as a …, 2017 - degruyter.com
This article investigates the language skills and the nature of language provision required by
economic migrants from Bangladesh working in the Middle East. It focuses in particular on …

Compensating wage differentials in formal and informal jobs

D Verhaest, S Adriaenssens - Kyklos, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We link the dearth of empirical support for the theory of compensating wage differentials
(CWD) to minimum wages and other labour market regulations. As these labour market …

Risk-taking and rulemaking: addressing risk compensation behavior through FDA regulation of prescription drugs

K Underhill - Yale J. on Reg., 2013 - HeinOnline
Risk-Taking and Rulemaking: Addressing Risk Compensation Behavior Through FDA Regulation
of Prescription Drugs Page 1 Risk-Taking and Rulemaking: Addressing Risk Compensation …