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Klimczuk, Andrzej; Klimczuk-Kochańska, Magdalena - In: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and …, (pp. 1-3). 2016

gender inequality and stereotypes lead to employment of men and women in different segments of the labor market characterized …

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Emotion Work

Klimczuk, Andrzej; Klimczuk-Kochańska, Magdalena - In: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and …, (pp. 1-3). 2016

Emotion work is usually defined as the psychological processes necessary to regulate emotions that are desired in specific private life conditions. When controlling the intensity and quality of the individual's feelings is related to the public sphere and undertaken for reasons associated with...

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Work, Domestic Work, Emotional Labour

Klimczuk, Andrzej - In: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory, (pp. 1-4). 2017

The concept of work can be understood as a purposeful human activity, which is focused on the processing of natural goods, items and/or information by using tools to meet tangible and intangible needs. Work is the usage of instruments to support the existence of humankind and the social world....

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Work-Family Balance

Klimczuk, Andrzej; Klimczuk-Kochańska, Magdalena - In: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and …, (pp. 1-3). 2016

The concept of work–family balance was introduced in the 1970s in the United Kingdom based on a work–leisure dichotomy, which was invented in the mid-1800s. It is usually related to the act of balancing of inter-role pressures between the work and family domains that leads to role conflict....

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Why Do Women Co-Operate More in Women’s Groups?

Fearon, James D.; Humphreys, Macartan - In: Towards Gender Equity in Development, (pp. 217-236). 2018

A substantial amount of development programming assumes that women have preferences or aptitudes that are more conducive to economic development. For example, conditional cash transfer programmes commonly deliver funding to female household heads, and many microcredit schemes focus on women’s...

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External Sector Gender Wage Gaps in Sri Lanka: An Analysis Using Matching Techniques

Kulatunga, Sasini T. K - In: Economy for All, (pp. 67-92). 2021

This study explores the differences in external sector wages between matched sets of men and women by applying the propensity score matching (PSM) technique and the matching method proposed by Ñopo (2008). The data for this study comes from Sri Lanka’s Labor Force Surveys for the years, 2015...

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Age, Health and Medical Expenditure

Jackson, William A. - In: The Social Economics of Health Care, (pp. 195-218). 2001

Ageing populations in developed countries have placed increasing demands on health care services and drawn attention to how age is related to medical expenditure. The effect of ageing on health involves a mixture of biological and social factors that ideally requires an interdisciplinary...

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Capitalism, Money and Inequality in the World

Di Muzio, Tim - In: Transitioning to Reduced Inequalities, (pp. 63-82). 2023

humanity it means a daily struggle just to survive or maintain a livelihood. However, why this radical inequality exists is not … altogether clear and is much debated in the academic literature and popular press. Moreover, some view economic inequality as … achieve their goals. However, is gross inequality rooted in human nature or is it the result of certain ways of organizing …

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Zeitgerechte Stadt - eine Einführung

Henckel, Dietrich; Kramer, Caroline - In: Zeitgerechte Stadt: Konzepte und Perspektiven für die …, (pp. 5-22). 2019

Die zunehmende Bedeutung von Gerechtigkeitsdiskursen auf unterschiedlichen Feldern hat auch für die zukünftige Stadtentwicklung in der Verknüpfung von räumlicher und zeitlicher Gerechtigkeit Gewicht. Obwohl jedes der Themen Raum, Zeit und Gerechtigkeit teilweise eine lange Tradition hat, ist...

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Cultural Capital

Klimczuk, Andrzej - In: The Wiley-Blackwell Concise Encyclopedia of Consumption …, (pp. 209-214). 2015

Cultural capital is usually defined as set of social features that provide individuals with social mobility and the possibility of changing their hierarchical position in systems such as wealth, power, prestige, education, and health. Cultural capital thus affects the processes of social...

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