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Published: 30 May 2025
..., this study investigates the role of accumulated years of physically demanding work (PDW) through middle adulthood on the number of functional limitations at age 60 (FL 60 ). This study also assesses whether cumulative PDW accounts for the observed differences in FL 60 among U.S.-born Black, Hispanic...
View articletitled, Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Functional Limitations Among U.S.-born Older Adults: Examining the Role of <span class="search-highlight">Physically</span> <span class="search-highlight">Demanding</span> Work
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Occupational influences on retirement, disability, and death
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Demography (1989) 26 (3): 393–409.
Published: 01 August 1989
... and indirectly on exiting events and whether occupations constrain traditional determinants of labor force participation. Based on a discrete-time hazard modeling approach, the results substantiate that the occupational task activities&#x2014;substantive complexity and physical demands&#x2014; are key...
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Occupational careers and mortality of elderly men
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Demography (1990) 27 (1): 31–53.
Published: 01 February 1990
... is reduced by the substantive complexity of the longest occupation while social skills and physical and environmental demands of the latest occupation lower mortality. This article presents findings from an analysis of occupational differences in mortality among a cohort of men aged 55 years and older...
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Economic Assimilation and Skill Acquisition: Evidence From the Occupational Sorting of Childhood Immigrants
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 571–602.
Published: 17 March 2017
... with the existence of different degrees of complementarity between relative English-learning potential at arrival and the acquisition of multiple capabilities demanded in the U.S. labor market (math/logic, socioemotional, physical, and communication skills). Consistent with the investment-complementarity argument...
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Some macroeconomic aspects of global population aging
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Demography (2010) 47 (Suppl 1): S151–S172.
Published: 01 March 2010
... and per capita income by raising investment in physical and human capital. Longer life, lower fertility, and population aging all raise the demand for wealth needed to provide for old-age consumption. This leads to increased capital per worker even as aggre- gate saving rates fall. However, capital per...
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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1423–1443.
Published: 01 August 2021
... measures has received very limited attention to date, resulting in a growing demand for the validation of existing perceived health measures using samples of natives and immigrants and establishing measurement equivalence of health-related assessment tools. This study, therefore, aims to examine...
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View articletitled, The Comparability of Perceived <span class="search-highlight">Physical</span> and Mental Health Measures Across Immigrants and Natives in the United States
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for article titled, The Comparability of Perceived <span class="search-highlight">Physical</span> and Mental Health Measures Across Immigrants and Natives in the United States
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Gender-Based Occupational Segregation and Sex Differences in Sensory, Motor, and Spatial Aptitudes
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1749–1775.
Published: 14 September 2018
... after we control for other explanations of gender occupational segregation, including measures of cognitive demands, physical strength, people/things orientation, occupational risk (death, competition, and prestige), and time flexibility. The estimated relationships are quantitatively important. We...
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The long arm of childhood: The influence of early-life social conditions on men’s mortality
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Demography (2004) 41 (1): 87–107.
Published: 01 February 2004
... to physical demands or stressful conditions factors that are proximate determinants of mortality (Brunner et al. 1996; Marmot et al. 1997; Moore and Hayward 1990). We referenced occupation in terms of the longest occu- pation in a respondent s career to assess the effects of the greatest degree of exposure...
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Changes in the retirement process among older men in the United States: 1972–1980
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Demography (1988) 25 (3): 371–386.
Published: 01 August 1988
... primary and secondary occupational positions. The characteristics considered in the analysis are economic returns to experience, specific vocational preparation, physical demands, environmental conditions, unemployment level, and occupational growth. The first four characteristics represent occupational...
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The effect of the sex composition of jobs on starting wages in an organization: Findings from the NLSY
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Demography (1996) 33 (4): 511–521.
Published: 01 November 1996
... .38 3.50 .50 3.76 .43 3.32 .59 1.16-5.00 Stress 12.38 26.80 6.73 20.99 9.04 23.40 4.36 15.60 .00-100.00 Hazards 10.10 23.15 32.12 35.79 8.01 20.64 31.44 36.12 .00-100.00 Physical demands 1.73 .66 2.30 .86 1.63 .69 2.33 .95 .01-4.00 Cold .59 3.85 3.40 10.68 .40 2.96 2.17 7.93 .00-82.11 Heat 3.01 11.06...
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Work and Retirement Among a Cohort of Older Men in the United States, 1966–1983
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Demography (1990) 27 (3): 337–356.
Published: 01 August 1990
... of disability (Hayward, Grady, Hardy, & Sommers 1989) and mortality (Mott & Haurin 1985). The association of education with disability may reflect the lack of alternative, less physically demanding employment opportunities among the poorly educated who are in ill health. Educational differences in mortality...
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Marital Status and Mothers’ Time Use: Childcare, Housework, Leisure, and Sleep
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 107–133.
Published: 08 February 2018
... can be done when convenient and does not require coordinating schedules with other people. Higher levels of sedentary leisure for single mothers may also be linked with their concentration in more physically demanding occupations. Active leisure is higher among individuals employed in professional...
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Modeling Disability Trajectories and Mortality of the Oldest-Old in China
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 291–314.
Published: 14 January 2012
... in many ways, such as through physical activity, physical demands of job and risks of injury, exposures to environmental risks, standard of living, and access to health care (Leigh and Fries 1992 ). Compared to studies in the West, multivariate modeling of late-life disability prevalence in China has...
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Is There a Trade-off Between Parent Care and Self-care?
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1251–1270.
Published: 06 June 2014
... demands on an individual’s time. With deteriorating spousal health, we expect that an individual’s time allocation in parent care, physical activity, and work will compete with his/her time allocation in spousal care. We use spouse’s ADL needs (as measured by the sum of five possible ADL limitations...
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Families, social life, and well-being at older ages
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Demography (2010) 47 (Suppl 1): S87–S109.
Published: 01 March 2010
.... A set of items queried how often (1) they could open up to their partner about worries; (2) they could rely on him/her; (3) the partner made too many demands; and (4) the partner criticized. Finally, for both past and current partnerships, self-rated emotional and physical satisfaction...
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The Family Life Course and Health: Partnership, Fertility Histories, and Later-Life Physical Health Trajectories in Australia
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Demography (2016) 53 (3): 777–804.
Published: 17 May 2016
... to health. As Macmillan and Copher ( 2005 ) argued, marital and fertility histories are deeply entangled given that the resources and demands associated with a role in one social domain may complement or conflict with the performance of other roles. The cross–social domain dependencies (e.g., between...
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View articletitled, The Family Life Course and Health: Partnership, Fertility Histories, and Later-Life <span class="search-highlight">Physical</span> Health Trajectories in Australia
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Immigrant Legal Status and Health: Legal Status Disparities in Chronic Conditions and Musculoskeletal Pain Among Mexican-Born Farm Workers in the United States
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 1–24.
Published: 05 December 2018
.../multiple), which captures exposure to repetitive motion injuries, rashes, and other diseases (Connor et al. 2010 ); the extent to which individuals work in a stooped position (Davis and Kotowski 2007 ); and other physical demands and environmental considerations (Swanberg et al. 2012 ). We control...
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View articletitled, Immigrant Legal Status and Health: Legal Status Disparities in Chronic Conditions and Musculoskeletal Pain Among Mexican-Born Farm Workers in the United States
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The effects of child health on marital status and family structure
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Demography (1992) 29 (3): 389–408.
Published: 01 August 1992
... Ven, P.M.M. and Bernard M.S. Van Praag. “The Demand for Deductibles in Private Health Insurance.” Journal of Econometrics 17:229–52. Yura Michael T. ( 1987 ). “Family Subsystem Functions and Disabled Children: Some Conceptual Issues.” . Marriage and Family Review , 11 ( 112 ), 135 – 51...
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Differences in disability among older women and men in Egypt and Tunisia
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Demography (2005) 42 (1): 169–187.
Published: 01 February 2005
... of the social and physical opportunities, constraints, and demands of one's environment (Nagi 1976). Here, we assess explicitly whether environ- mental factors account for differences between women and men in all three dimensions of disability, namely, reported difficulty performing basic and instrumental...
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Private sector logistics in population control: A case in Jamaica
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 449–459.
Published: 01 March 1968
... from a unidirectional model in which consump- tion is seen to be increased by consumer education, which generates motivation. At this point, the thinking is usually vague, but motivation presumably leads to latent demand, which leads, in turn, to availability-often in the content of clinics...
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