TY - JOUR
PY - 2019//
TI - 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
JO - Journal of spinal cord medicine
A1 - Schwegler, Urban
A1 - Nützi, Marina
A1 - Marti, Albert
A1 - Trezzini, Bruno
SP - 1
EP - 12
VL - ePub
IS - ePub
N2 - OBJECTIVE: To compare pre- and post-injury job type distributions of individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) living in Switzerland.
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.
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.
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. Language: en
LA - en
SN - 1079-0268
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10790268.2019.1573346
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