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Personality maturation and personality relaxation: differences of the Big Five personality traits in the years around the beginning and ending of working life
Asselmann, Eva; Specht, Jule - 2021
Objective: At work, people are confronted with clear behavioral expectations. In line with the Social Investment Principle, the beginning and ending of working life might thus promote changes in personality traits that are relevant at work (e.g., Conscientiousness). Method: Based on the data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012643683
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Moving down: women's part time work and occupational change in Britain 1991 - 2001
Connolly, Sara; Gregory, Mary - 2007
The UK's Equal Opportunities Commission has recently drawn attention to the 'hidden brain drain' when women working part-time are employed in occupations below those for which they are qualified. These inferences were based on self-reporting. We give an objective and quantitative analysis of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268437
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Part-time employment can be a life-time setback for earnings: a study of British women 1975 - 2001
Connolly, Sara; Gregory, Mary - 2007
Two particular features of the position of women in the British labour market are the extensive role of part-time work and the large part-time pay penalty. Part-time work features most prominently when women are in their 30s, the peak childcare years and, particularly for more educated women, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268486
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Wage compression and the gender pay gap : wage-setting institutions narrow the gender pay gap but may reduce employment for some women
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2015
There are large international differences in the gender pay gap. In some developed countries in 2010-2012, women were … education and experience and commonly work in different industries and occupations, multiple factors can influence the gender … to education, experience, and occupational wage differentials. Systems of wage compression narrow the gender pay gap but …
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Working-time flexibility and autonomy : a European perspective on time adequacy
Lott, Yvonne - In: European journal of industrial relations 21 (2015) 3, pp. 259-274
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Gender, age and flexible working in later life
Loretto, Wendy; Vickerstaff, Sarah - In: Work, employment & society : a journal of the British … 29 (2015) 2, pp. 233-249
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The political economy of "lap dancing" : contested careers and women’s work in the stripping industry
Hardy, Kate; Sanders, Teela - In: Work, employment & society : a journal of the British … 29 (2015) 1, pp. 119-136
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Women and recession revisited
Rubery, Jill; Rafferty, Anthony - In: Work, employment & society : a journal of the British … 27 (2013) 3, pp. 414-432
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A matter of time : young professionals’ experiences of long work hours
Sturges, Jane - In: Work, employment & society : a journal of the British … 27 (2013) 2, pp. 343-359
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Gender and race heterogeneity : the impact of increases in students with limited English on native students' performance
Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2013
achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …
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