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Job and Life Satisfaction of Russian Mothers and Women without Children
Pankratova, Margarita - In: Journal of Economic Sociology 14 (2013) 2, pp. 88-110
In this paper the author presents research findings that reveal the determinants of life and job satisfaction forRussian women. After giving birth, women have to pay much more attention to their family and child than totheir work, often either quitting their job or switching to part-time work....
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Voluntary work and wages
Bruno, Bruna; Fiorillo, Damiano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
volunteering on wages gives support to the hypotheses that volunteering enables the access to fruitful informal networks, avoids …
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Sociological Precepts and of Christian Morality in the Economic Work of Thomas Malthus (English version)
BOSTAN, Ionel - In: Revista de cercetare si interventie sociala 35 (2011) December, pp. 171-179
by food resources, the development of capitalism and situation of the poor people. Also, profit and wages appeared as two … complementary but opposite incomes, the profit maximization supposing to maintain at a low level of wages. Through the conception on …
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Status Concerns and the Organization of Work.
Fershtman, C.; Weiss, Y.; Hvide, H.K. - Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas … - 2001
firm. We assume a competitive labor market with unobservable effort, where firms condition wages on output as incentive for …
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Globalized markets, globalized information, and female employment: accounting for regional differences in 30 OECD countries
Fischer, Justina A.V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
globalization on female employment in 30 OECD countries, using a micro pseudo panel of 110’000 persons derived from five waves of … the probability of employment for women – contradicting the Becker (1957)-hypothesis of international competition … mitigating discrimination in employment. However, accounting for sub-national regional gender heterogeneity reveals that the …
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The Occupational Attainment of American Jewry: 1990 to 2000
Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Jews of both genders experienced a continued decline in self-employment over the decade, and a continued shift among those … in managerial and professional jobs away from self employment and toward being salaried workers. …
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Role Attitudes and its Implications for Female Labor Force Participation
Farré, Lídia; Vella, Francis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Using a sample of mother-child pairs from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and the Young Adults of the NLSY79 we explore the relationship between a woman’s attitudes towards the role of females in the labor market and the attitudes of her children. We also examine...
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What Do People Buy When They Don't Buy Health Insurance And What Does that Say about Why They are Uninsured?
Levy, Helen; DeLeire, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
Using data from the 1994 through 1998 Consumer Expenditure Surveys, we compare household spending on 16 different goods (food at home, food away from home, housing, transportation, alcohol and tobacco, interest, furniture and appliances, home maintenance, clothing, utilities, medical care,...
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Culture as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labor Force Participation over a Century
Fernandez, Raquel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
years. The model highlights a new dynamic role for changes in wages via their effect on intergenerational learning. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830657
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Ideology
Benabou, Roland - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
I develop a model of ideologies as collectively sustained (yet individually rational) distortions in beliefs concerning the proper scope of governments versus markets. In processing and interpreting signals of the efficacy of public and market provision of education, health insurance, pensions,...
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