"occupational shift" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a change in one's job or occupation. For example: "John's recent occupational shift from engineer to teacher has been a rewarding experience."
Not everyone, of course, is in what Kellaway describes as this "demographic sweet spot": financially secure for life so they can make an occupational shift that may bring rich rewards but not pay the bills.
Questionnaires, interviews, and physical and laboratory examinations were used to assess urban exposure, occupational shift work, risk factors for NCDs, self-reported NCDs, and other NCD-related health conditions.
The results show that employees' occupational shifts strengthen sex segregation across occupations, especially female ones.
This study examines sex differences in employees' patterns of mobility between occupations of different sex proportions between 2002 and 2003 and how occupational sex segregation in Sweden is influenced by employees' occupational shifts.
The relative earnings gains for women are linked in significant ways to occupational shifts that involve rising demand for cognitive skills (Bacolod and Blum2010).
These efforts include: workplace exposure to chemicals, biological agents, ergonomics, occupational stress, shift-work and long hours of work, crisis and violence prevention, hazard analysis techniques, and indoor air quality for employers, labor unions, and the public.
Using this technique, the bias concerning the occupational level shifts from 69.38% before matching to 1.63% after matching and the one concerning the Mincerian individual wage fixed effect shifts from 44.79 to 1.04%.
Critics of the approach, among them prominent scientists and physicians, say the approach can too easily be used to shift occupational health concerns away from the workplace and place the blame for illness on the worker's "faulty" genes.
Ulcers have been named the occupational disease of shift workers.
A recent study reported that 4.6% of all female breast cancers could be attributed to occupational exposure to shift work [ 13].
Future study designs should have sufficient statistical power to detect small to moderate associations; include comprehensive exposure assessments that estimate residential and occupational exposures, including shift work; focus on a relevant time period; control for known breast cancer risks; and pay careful attention to menopausal and estrogen receptor status.
