Search Results - subject:"life histories"

People who once had 40 cattle are left only with fences : coping with persistent drought in Awash, Ethiopia

Camfield, Laura; Leavy, Jen; Endale, Senait; Tefera, Tilahun - In: The European journal of development research : journal … 32 (2020) 4, pp. 889-905

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Shocked by therapy? : unemployment in the first years of the socio-economic transition in Poland and its long-term consequences

Myck, Michał; Oczkowska, Monika - In: Economics of transition 26 (2018) 4, pp. 695-724

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Chronic poverty in rural Ethiopia through the lens of life histories

Camfield, Laura; Roelen, Keetie - 2012

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Transforming labour: from the workers' state to the post-socialist re-organization of industry and workplace communities : Carl Zeiss Jena (East Germany) and Rába in Győr (Hungary)...

Bartha, Eszter - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 58 (2017) 2, pp. 413-438

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Long shadows of history: Persecution in Central Europe and its labor market consequences

Myck, Michal; Bohacek, Radim - 2011

We analyze the extent and effects of job-related persecution under communist regimes in the Czech Republic and Poland using a representative sample of individuals aged 50+ from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. Retrospective information collected in the SHARELIFE interview...

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Long Shadows of History: Persecution in Central Europe and Its Labor Market Consequences

Myck, Michal; Bohacek, Radim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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FOLK CULTURE IN ROMANIA DURING THE COMMUNIST PERIOD. AN ANALYSIS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF CULTURAL STUDIES (English version)

STEFANESCU, SIMONA - In: Revista Romana de Sociologie 3-4 (2010), pp. 234-259

of the researc h was the social biography (in the form of life histories). More exactly, I used the technique of …

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Vulnerability, poverty and coping in Zimbabwe

Bird, Kate; Prowse, Martin - 2008

This paper uses five life histories from three locations in Zimbabwe - one peri-urban, one urban and one rural to …

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Disentangling the complexities of vertebrate sex allocation: a role for squamate reptiles?

Wapstra, E; Uller, T; Pen, I; Komdeur, J; Olsson, M; … - 2007

Sex allocation is an important field in evolutionary biology, both historically and currently. However, while sex allocation theory has successfully predicted sex ratio bias in some taxa, most notably parasitic wasps, vertebrates are notorious for their poor fit to theoretical models. We argue...

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Methodological Issues Associated with Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Understanding Poverty Dynamics: Evidence from Uganda

Lawson, David - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

panel data we use the same sampling frame and extend the panel by visiting the same households - collecting both life … histories and further quantitative data, with the intention being, for this first paper in a series of outputs, to consider some …

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