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An Investment Model of Social Capital with Empirical Application to Women`s Labour Market Outcomes in Urban China

Yueh, Linda Y. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001

The move to a more market-oriented economy is associated with evidence of increased inequality in the incomes earned by men and women. The context of our study of this question is the recent large-scale reform of the inefficient state sector, which has caused layoffs of urban workers that...

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Moving Down: Women`s Part-time Work and Occupational Change in Britain 1991-2001

Gregory, Mary; Connolly, Sara - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

The UK`s Equal Opportunities Commission has recently drawn attention to the `hidden brain drain` when women working part-time are employed in occupations below those for which they are qualified. These inferences were based on self-reporting. We give an objective and quantitative analysis of the...

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Dual Tracks: Part-time Work in Life-Cycle Employment for British Women

Gregory, Mary; Connolly, Sara - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

Almost half the women in work in the UK work part-time, but views conflict: does this support a woman`s career or is it a dead-end trap? Cohort data on labour market involvement to age 42 show highly varied pathways through full/part-time/non-employment. Econometric estimation confirms that...

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Part-time Work - A Trap for Women`s Careers? An Analysis of the Roles of Heterogeneity and State Dependence

Gregory, Mary; Connolly, Sara - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2005

Part-time work has been a major area of employment growth for women in the UK over recent decades. Almost half the women in employment now work part-time and two-thirds have worked part-time for some part of their working lives. Part-time employment is welcomed by many women as a means of...

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Part-time Employment Can Be a Life-time Setback for Earnings: A Study of British Women 1975-2001

Gregory, Mary; Connolly, Sara - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

Two particular features of the position of women in the British labour market are the extensive role of part-time work and the large part-time pay penalty. Part-time work features most prominently when women are in their 30s, the peak childcare years and, particularly for more educated women, a...

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The Time-crunch Paradox

Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena; Gimenez-Nadal, Jose Ignacio - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

Previous research has shown little difference in the average leisure time of men and women. This finding is a … equal decreases in household labor. This paper presents time-use and leisure satisfaction data for a variety of western … particular, working mothers have leisure levels that are much lower than those of working fathers and singles. Working mothers …

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A Note on Leisure Inequality in the US: 1965-2003

Sanz, Almudena Sevilla; Nadal, Jose Ignacio GImenez - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

.S. in recent decades, leisure inequality mirrors inequality of wages, i.e. we observe that highly-educated individuals have … now relatively less leisure time than lower-educated individuals. What are the implications for evaluating individual … welfare? This paper moves beyond the current published research, which has mostly concentrated on total time spent in leisure …

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The Price of Time and Labour Supply: From the Black Death to the Industrious Revolution

Koyama, Mark - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2009

In pre-industrial economies labour supply curves often bend backwards at very low levels of income. This changed prior to the industrial revolution: total working hours increased (De Vries (1993), Voth (1998, 2000)). This paper examines this industrious revolution using a model of labour...

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Income Contributions of Child Work in Rural Ethiopia

Cockburn, John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2002

The income contribution of child work is undoubtedly a key factor influencing child work and schooling decisions. Yet, few studies have attempted to directly measure this contribution. This is particularly the case for work performed on the household farm, as is the case for the vast majority of...

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Understanding Geographical Imbalances in the Health Workforce

Serneels, Pieter; Barr, Abigail - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2005

Geographical imbalances in the health workforce have been a consistent feature of nearly all health systems, and especially in developing countries. In this paper we investigate the willingness to work in a rural area among final year nursing and medical students in Ethiopia. Analyzing data...

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