@article{ref1,
title="Pre- and post-injury job type distributions of individuals with SCI in relation to structural changes in the labor market: a comparative analysis based on findings from the Swiss Spinal Cord Injury Cohort Study",
journal="Journal of spinal cord medicine",
year="2019",
author="Schwegler, Urban and Nützi, Marina and Marti, Albert and Trezzini, Bruno",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="1-12",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To compare pre- and post-injury job type distributions of individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) living in Switzerland. <br><br>DESIGN: Cross-sectional, self-report survey. SETTING: Community. PARTICIPANTS: Two hundred sixty-three individuals reporting a pre- and 677 a post-injury job title in the Swiss SCI Cohort Study community survey. INTERVENTIONS: Not applicable. OUTCOME MEASURES: Job titles were elicited by free-text questions and classified using the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-08). Frequencies across ISCO-08 major groups were calculated and compared to Swiss labor market statistics for 1995 and 2011. <br><br>RESULTS: Compared to pre-SCI, Professionals (16.3% vs 31.2%) and Clerical Support Workers (11.7% vs 19.1%) were more prevalent and Crafts and Related Workers (26.5% vs 5.4%) less common post-injury. Except for Clerical Support Workers, these results reflect recent structural changes in the Swiss labor market. <br><br>CONCLUSION: The higher post-SCI prevalence of jobs predominantly requiring cognitive and communication skills compared to rather physically oriented jobs mirrors structural changes in the labor market, except for clerical jobs. Future return-to-work strategies should not primarily target the clerical sector with its diminishing job opportunities, but promote vocational re-training towards jobs requiring higher education and assistive technology to return individuals with limited cognitive resources to physically oriented jobs.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1079-0268",
doi="10.1080/10790268.2019.1573346",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10790268.2019.1573346"
}