Blacks are employed in hazardous occupations more frequently than whites, and black men experience higher occupational fatality rates than white men employed in the same jobs (Loomis and Richardson 1998).
The death rate for Hispanics in construction, an industry that has hired many immigrants in recent years, is even higher, occupational experts say.
Costs of such a program can be substantial if all disability coverage is raised to a level approaching that of the previous, often considerably higher, occupational injury coverage.
Many jobs in today's economy — particularly those at the higher occupational levels where gender differences in pay are most pronounced — are not standardized, and wage rates are not determined by a market based on open bidding.
These teachers have a higher occupational status than teachers in other branches of secondary education, such as industrial or commercial schools, which are less selective and require less training and accept lower examination standards of their teachers.
Having a highly educated workforce and higher occupational position is equated with high productivity.
The benefits of legalization include greater employment opportunities, higher occupational mobility, and, consequently, greater bargaining power and higher wages.
English proficiency, higher education, and higher occupational status are characteristics associated with better socioeconomic adaptation among Eastern European skilled immigrants.
And people with higher occupational prestige tend to deflate status, while those who are on the lower rungs of the prestige ladder tend to have inflated social status.
The results in Model 2b even indicate that dropouts without pre-tertiary vocational qualifications obtain slightly higher occupational positions than dropouts with a vocational training degree.
Furthermore, to facilitate interpretation of results we consider two occupational groups, with the higher occupational group including "managers" and "professionals" only.
