Women's Careers explores contexts and strategies that advance or hinder women's career development. It brings readers up-to-date on the intersection of the fields of women's studies, career development, and human resources. The applied focus and broad range of topics covered will appeal to both...

Intro -- Contents -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Job Quality in the United States -- Part I: Changing Work Structures and Workers -- Chapter 2: Economic Transformation and the Decline of Institutional Protections -- Chapter 3: New Workers, New Differences -- Part II:...

The recent financial crisis and subsequent recession have spurred great interest in the sources of unemployment fluctuations. Previous studies predominantly assume a single economy-wide labour market, and therefore abstract from differences across sectorspecific labour markets in the economy. In...