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Purpose – This paper aims to review and discuss recent literature on gender, trust, risk-taking and entrepreneurship … proposed. Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents a review of the literature on gender, trust, risk-taking and …. Findings – In recent years, the issue of gender and its effect on entrepreneurship has been the subject of much debate and …
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use spatial thinking (space-time) as a lens through which to examine the ways in which the socio-economic conditions and values of the post-Fordist academy work to diminish and even subsume the immaterial affective labour of librarians even as it serves to...
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gender attributes and different sets of skills contribute to logistics performance. The article focuses on humanitarian … logistics and outlines the areas in which gender issues impact on the effectiveness of the provision of aid following a disaster …. Design/methodology/approach – A topical literature review on gender, humanitarian logistics, and logistics performance is …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present MEDA programs in small enterprise development – value chain and microfinance projects – to illustrate that the human capital of even hard to reach women can be harnessed for a community's and even a nation's economic growth....
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The deteriorating labour market position of low‐skilled workers challenges economic efficiency and social equity. Four aspects are examined: joblessness among the low‐skilled; the prevalence of low pay among women; persistence in low pay; and the overlap between low pay and household poverty....
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suffer by her working. In addition to age and gender, the factors influencing attitude are income, education, religious …
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The data from the Swiss Labour Force Survey (SAKE) have been widely used to estimate wage functions, which in turn have been applied for the determination of wage discrimination between genders. One serious problem with the SAKE data is that about 17 per cent of employed individuals did not...
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Examines gender and ethnic occupational segregation in Israel, focusing on the interaction between gender and ethnicity … versus gender segregation; gender differences in ethnic occupational segregation; and ethnicity differences in gender … occupational segregation. Finds that gender segregation is much higher than ethnic segregation; that, overall, women are not more …
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Purpose – Research in gender and development (GAD) remains largely preoccupied with women's issues and ignores the … gendered nature of masculine experience. While exposing this inconsistency in gender research, the present paper highlights the … gendered nature of men, and sets an agenda for their inclusion in gender research and planning. Design …
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quantitative methodologies has restricted understanding of this. To address the gender bias in small firm network research the … three network dimensions may provide insights into the impact of gender on business owner networks, social capital and …
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