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Gender differences in perceived quality of employment (achievement, content, job insecurity, time autonomy and physical … association of women’s concentration in broader occupational categories, embedded in particular national contexts, with gender … gender gap narrows in most job quality dimensions. The implications of these results are discussed. …
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The report proposes a critical approach of European job quality indicators. It relies on both theoreti-cal and empirical analysis, and shows the necessity to introduce complementary variables, such as wages, working conditions and training duration. Comparative results for the EU 27 confirm the...
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Shows that the clustering of small firms is a traditional feature of manufacturing in Java. Covers core-periphery segmentation of the labour force, especially concerning the employment of women.
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world. In this context, this study poses four important questions. Has occupational segregation by sex decreased in the 1990 …s? Can we expect occupational segregation to decline as economic development occurs? To what extent does gender … segregation explain the male-female wage gap? Are gender differences in employment opportunities especially injurious to poorly …
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world. In this context, this study poses four important questions. Has occupational segregation by sex decreased in the 1990 …s? Can we expect occupational segregation to decline as economic development occurs? To what extent does gender … segregation explain the male-female wage gap? Are gender differences in employment opportunities especially injurious to poorly …
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Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) of the OECD on 44 developing countries, the paper finds that social institutions … social institutions is crucial for advancing gender equality.<BR>On se préoccupe de plus en plus de la « féminisation » des … appliquant le nouvel indicateur de l’OCDE en usage SIGI (social institutions and gender index) à 44 pays en développement, nous …
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This paper deals with job quality in terms of job statuses, working time, working hours arrangements (flexible hours, week-end work, evening work, night work). We realise a cluster analysis of workers with these 3 dimensions of job quality from the French labour survey Enquête Emploi and we...
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and how these gender differences are shaped by societal beliefs about ‘gender equality.’ Using data from the 2004 wave of … expectation, the job profiles of men and women are not more similar in societies with gender egalitarian norms. While women are …, in more gender-egalitarian societies their work is not, relative to men’s, more skilled, complex or autonomous. Neither …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to seek test for the precondition for labour-market competition between immigrants and natives, which implies that both are willing to accept jobs that do not differ in quality. Design/methodology/approach – To test this hypothesis, using Spanish data,...
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