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It is well established that class and gender predict occupational placement across advanced industrialized countries. In exploratory analyses the authors document a third dimension to occupational segregation associated with family responsibilities, and consider explanations for cross- national...
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.e. by differing probabilities of any employment? Across OECD countries there are large differences in the average level and … employment. The participation level is particularly important for inequality differences and there is persuasive evidence that … country attitudes to paid employment, particularly for women, differ significantly. This paper uses Luxembourg Income Study …
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Nach der jedes Jahr im AMS-Qualifikations-Barometer vorgenommenen Aktualisierung sämtlicher 24 Berufsbereiche Ende März werden elf derselben, nämlich solche mit hoher Dynamik und /oder hohen Beschäftigtenzahlen, Ende Oktober nochmals hinsichtlich Textierungen wie auch Bewertungen...
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This project explored how the sociopolitical context maps current class-gender intersections in relative employment … employment equality becomes a moving target. …
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inequality in wages and employment. This study examines family gaps in the economic well-being of households, and analyzes the …
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This paper investigates wage gaps between part- and full-time women workers in six OECD countries in the mid-1990s. Using comparable micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), for Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the UK, and the US, the paper first assesses crossnational variation in the...
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employment and fertility of men, researchers believed that women with higher wages had fewer children than women with lower wages … lower wages. Therefore, it becomes more and more apparent that the correlation between women's fertility and employment is … and return to their work place sooner than other women. Studies finding a positive correlation between women's employment …
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Addresses three hypotheses which may help to explain the differences in the observed labour-force participation rates of women and which can be examined using micro-data from LIS. These include: the importance of income needs, the role of marriage patterns, and the effects of children....
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Radical employment, household structure and stability transformations have created new tensions on the welfare state …, due to decisive factors as well-functioning, full-employment labor markets and stable and fertile families. Since 1970s …
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In this paper we use microdata on employment and earnings from a variety of industrialized countries to investigate the … that there is a good deal of variation across our sample countries in the effects of children on women's employment. We … family gap in pay across countries is not primarily due to differential selection into employment or to differences in wage …
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