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An increasing number of professional Chinese have been coming to Britain for further education and employment in the last two decades. However, studies on the employment of Chinese migrants in Britain remain limited, particularly of women professionals from mainland China who enter Britain as...
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sizeable portion of the gender wage gap and that wages in female-dominated occupations are lower than wages in other …
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This article examines whether there is a gender gap in monthly wages among recent graduates in 11 European countries … important factors accounting for the gender gap. Wage discrimination is lower in countries with high trade union density …
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This article critically reviews a range of analytical frameworks used in cross-national comparative employment and welfare state research. The approaches examined include the societal effect, varieties of capitalism, welfare state regimes and benchmarking approaches, and their feminist...
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Sweden where, despite the establishment of gender equality and work–family reconciliation policies, we find that higher …
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it argues that discrimination on the grounds of age is bound up with gender, race and class. Older women described how … constructed in terms of advantage and disadvantage within specific occupations and sectors already defined in terms of gender and …
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applies concepts of job satisfaction to the judiciary and investigates gender differences. Data from two national surveys … of dissatisfaction exist, in particular regarding work–life balance. Gender differences do not appear to be direct, but … mediated by other characteristics which are gender-related. Broadly, these findings demonstrate that a full understanding of …
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and family obligations involves both individual adaptation and structural factors, such as a gender-segregated labour … market and ‘gender-typing’ of travel as a predominantly male activity, all of which reflect traditional gender and family …
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Labour-intensive workplaces in export processing zones (EPZs) are typically characterized as ‘sweatshop-like’, devoid of voice mechanisms. Using ethnographic data in a Sri Lankan EPZ apparel factory and focusing on social interaction on the shop floor, the findings demonstrated the...
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Although access to higher education has helped many minority ethnic men and women improve their labour market position compared to prior generations or the less qualified, it remains unclear to what extent higher level qualifications facilitate an equalization of labour market outcomes with...
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