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This study investigates the relation between early life conditions and adult obesity in France, using a rich data set … highlight a definite gender pattern, with a strong association between early disadvantage and obesity in women, but not in men …
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category. Moreover, no support to the human sex and gender identity as predictors of brand categorization and sexual perception …
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that a brand is perceived by consumers as having a sex, a sexual state and a gender. An exploratory qualitative analysis …
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Purpose – This paper seeks to explore the difficult territory of intersectionality as it relates to inequality and disadvantage in the labour market of the arts and cultural sector. It aims to first examine the way Acker's concept of inequality regimes is located in the extant literature....
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gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …
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, and at times voluntary work. The participants’ reactions to JOBS reveal negotiations of identity that depend on gender …
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This paper analyses part of the controversy over export processing zones (EPZs)—the labour market and gender impacts … of microdata availability, we estimate earnings regressions to assess sector and gender wage premia. Zone Franche … women from the low-wage informal sector (where the gender pay gap is very large) to the relatively well-paid export …
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Women’s disadvantaged position in the labour market can be explained by conflicts between their roles in exercising an economic activity and in assuming their domestic activities. Husbands’ insufficient or inexistent income has increased women’s role in household survival strategies, but...
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In the literature, sex is often presented as an individual determinant of sickness absence. A common finding is that women are absent from work more than men. In this article, we examine sex as a variable that can function as a surrogate for certain workplace determinants. Our study is based on...
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