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Temporary jobs : stepping stones or dead ends?

Booth, Alison L.; Francesconi, Marco; Frank, Jeff - 2000

In Britain about 7% of male employees and 10% of female employees are in temporary jobs. In contrast to much of continental Europe, this proportion has been relatively stable over the 1990s. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, we find that temporary workers report lower levels of...

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The impact of deunionisation on earnings dispersion revisited

Addison, John T. (contributor); Bailey, Ralph (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Marriage, partnership and sexual orientation : a study of British university academics and administrators

Booth, Alison L. (contributor); Frank, Jeff (contributor) - 2008

Using a unique data source on marital status, partnership and sexual orientation of academics and administrators at British universities, we estimate the impact of personal relationships upon earnings for men and women. While university data cover a relatively homogeneous group of workers, the...

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Gender differences in risk behaviour : does nurture matter?

Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick - 2009

innate preferences are modified by pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes. Single-sex environments are likely to modify … either coed or single sex schools, and more likely than coed girls. Moreover, gender differences in preferences for risk …-taking are sensitive to the gender mix of the experimental group, with girls being more likely to choose risky outcomes when …

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Choosing to compete : how different are girls and boys?

Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick - 2009

the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. -- Tournament ; piece-rate ; gender ; experiment …

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Do single-sex classes affect exam scores? : an experiment in a coeducational university

Booth, Alison L.; Cardona-Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - 2013

reduction in stereotype threat for females and are not due to a potential tracking effect. -- single-sex ; education ; gender …

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Job search methods and outcomes

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2001

Using Portuguese data, this paper investigates the effects of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and of job-finding methods on earnings. The effectiveness of the job search process is also evaluated in terms of the periodicity of the resulting job match. Emphasis is accorded...

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Unemployment duration : competing and defective risks

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2001

This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination states, namely, inactivity and employment. The major innovation is our recognition of defective risks. We first use a polynomial hazard function to test for the presence of...

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Unions and establishment performance : evidence from the British workplace industrial/employee relations surveys

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - 2002

An interesting aspect of British research on unions based on the Workplace Industrial/Employment Relations Surveys has been the apparent shift in union impact on establishment performance in the decade of the 1990s compared with the 1980s - and the recent scramble to explain the phenomenon. In...

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Unions and employment growth : the one constant?

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - 2002

Sequential analyses of the major workplace data sets available to British researchers - the Workplace Industrial/Employee Relations Surveys (WIRS/WERS) - have revealed shifts in some previously solid relationships between union presence and a variety of establishment performance indicators. So...

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