Workers’ compensation and the working poor: Occupational health experience among low wage workers in federally qualified health centers
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DOI: 10.1002/ajim.22813
Abstract: BACKGROUND The working poor are at highest risk of work-related injuries and have limited access to occupational health care. OBJECTIVES To explore community health centers (CHCs) as a venue for accessing at risk workers; and… read more here.
Keywords: occupational health; low wage; working poor; workers compensation ... See more keywords
Introduction of a National Minimum Wage Reduced Depressive Symptoms in Low‐Wage Workers: A Quasi‐Natural Experiment in the UK
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DOI: 10.1002/hec.3336
Abstract: Summary Does increasing incomes improve health? In 1999, the UK government implemented minimum wage legislation, increasing hourly wages to at least £3.60. This policy experiment created intervention and control groups that can be used to… read more here.
Keywords: depressive symptoms; low wage; wage workers; minimum wage ... See more keywords
Low-wage import competition and populist backlash: The case of Italy
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2020.101970
Abstract: The surge of populism in many advanced countries calls for the analysis of its causes. In this paper, we empirically study the role of trade globalization in shifting the electoral base toward populism. We proxy… read more here.
Keywords: low wage; wage import; import competition; import ... See more keywords
Public policy for addressing the low-skills low-wage trap: insights from business case studies in the Birmingham city-region, UK
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DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2020.1802005
Abstract: ABSTRACT The idea that some local areas are characterized by a low-skills equilibrium trap is prominent in academic and policy debates in the Global North. Factors shaping this position and associated implications for local economic… read more here.
Keywords: low wage; policy; city region; birmingham city ... See more keywords
Low Hourly Wages in Middle-Age Are Associated With Faster Memory Decline in Older Age: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study.
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DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwac166
Abstract: Little research has investigated the long-term relationship between low wages and memory decline, despite the growing share of low-wage workers in the US labor market. Here, we examine whether cumulative exposure to low wages over… read more here.
Keywords: memory; low wage; memory decline; age ... See more keywords
1331 Finding at-risk, low wage workers in community health centres in the us
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DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2018-icohabstracts.448
Abstract: Introduction The ‘working poor’ bear an inequitable burden of work-related injuries, illnesses, and fatalities. They often obtain healthcare in community health centres (CHCs) and do not report work-relatedness. The aim was to determine whether the… read more here.
Keywords: low wage; wage workers; community health; wage ... See more keywords
The Inequitable Effects of Raising the Retirement Age on Blacks and Low-Wage Workers
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DOI: 10.1177/0034644619843529
Abstract: Increasing the Social Security Full Retirement Age (FRA) adversely affects all workers because an increase is equivalent to an across-the-board cut in benefits. Raising the FRA leaves workers with two bad choices: working longer or… read more here.
Keywords: retirement; low wage; wage workers; retirement age ... See more keywords
Revaluing Low-Wage Work
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DOI: 10.1177/0486613416666543
Abstract: Labor and community activists have organized around raising wages for low-wage workers, notably through the “Fight for 15” campaign among fast food workers. This study uses skills data together with manager survey data to estimate… read more here.
Keywords: revaluing low; low wage; wage work; wage ... See more keywords
Revisiting Bergmann’s Occupational Crowding Model
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DOI: 10.1177/0486613418788406
Abstract: In 1971, economist Barbara Bergmann developed the “occupational crowding model,” which posited that black men are “crowded into” low-wage occupations and “crowded out” of high-wage occupations due to employer discrimination. In quantitative analyses I have… read more here.
Keywords: low wage; occupational crowding; model; wage ... See more keywords
No Choice but to Be Essential: Expanding Dimensions of Precarity During COVID-19
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DOI: 10.1177/07311214211005491
Abstract: Under COVID-19, low-wage service sector workers found themselves as essential workers vulnerable to intensified precarity. Based on in-depth interviews with a sample of 52 low-wage service workers interviewed first in Summer 2019 and then in… read more here.
Keywords: low wage; covid; precarity; dimensions precarity ... See more keywords
Defining the problem of low wage growth in Australia and Denmark: From the actors’ perspectives
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DOI: 10.1177/09596801221132424
Abstract: Low wage growth is a challenge common to many OECD countries including countries with very different institutional systems. This paper utilises and extends Rochefort and Cobb’s (1993) ‘problem definition’ framework to analyse how employer and… read more here.
Keywords: problem; denmark; wage growth; low wage ... See more keywords