Wages, workers' compensation benefits, and drug use: indirect evidence of the effect of drugs on workplace accidents

Article Abstract:

The relationship between drug use and declining industrial productivity has been popularly accepted despite limited anecdotal evidence. Such acceptance has been conditioned by general knowledge of the negative effects of drug abuse. Wages and workers' compensation benefits will exhibit a functional relationship with drug consumption levels when drug use is assumed to condition workplace accident probability. However, tests of the assumption indicate that drug use has no substantial effect on workplace accidents.

Workplace accidents, Workers' compensation, Employee drug abuse

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Occupational mobility and post-1964 earnings gains by black women

Article Abstract:

Black women have increased their earnings capacity after passage of anti-discrimination regulations such as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 1965 Executive Order 11246. A post-1964 acceleration in occupational mobility was also observed for black women. This mobility has exhibited a dominating role the earnings increase, while supply-censoring, wage convergence and other competing hypotheses were not established for the gain in earnings capacity.

Compensation and benefits, Women, Black, Black women

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Occupational gains of black women since the 1964 Civil Rights Act: long-term or episodic?

Article Abstract:

The trend of African-American women's occupational mobility since 1964 is investigated using an index of occupational status. The analysis reveals that occupational gains did not continue. In the 1980s, the rate of increase in the index is considerably lower than before 1965. This decline is more noticeable when African-American women are compared to white women. For example, in the 1980s the rate of decrease is comparable to the rate of increase from 1965-1973.

Social aspects, Demographic aspects, African Americans, White women

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