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View article: Cross-national Comparison of Job Types: Analysis Using the EU LFS and Albanian LFS
Cross-national Comparison of Job Types: Analysis Using the EU LFS and Albanian LFS Open
View article: The Impact of Early Marriage on the Life Satisfaction, Education and Subjective Health of Young Women in India: A Longitudinal Analysis
The Impact of Early Marriage on the Life Satisfaction, Education and Subjective Health of Young Women in India: A Longitudinal Analysis Open
Despite progress in reducing rates of early marriage, it is still a widespread practice in India accounting for 30 per cent of the world’s early marriages. Understanding its impacts is thus of high importance to global gender equality goal…
View article: Time poverty and gender in urban sub‐Saharan Africa: Long working days and long commutes in Ghana's Greater Accra Metropolitan Area
Time poverty and gender in urban sub‐Saharan Africa: Long working days and long commutes in Ghana's Greater Accra Metropolitan Area Open
This study uses a mixed‐methods approach and primary data to consider how the length of the working day in Ghana's Greater Accra Metropolitan Area is shaped by time in paid and unpaid work and commuting. The analysis investigates gender di…
View article: Emissivity evaluation of human enamel and dentin
Emissivity evaluation of human enamel and dentin Open
Background: Human enamel and dentin temperatures have been assessed with non-contact infrared imaging devices for safety and diagnostic capacity and require an emissivity parameter to enable absolute temperature measurements. Emissivity is…
View article: Life Satisfaction and Job Insecurity
Life Satisfaction and Job Insecurity Open
Fear of the threat of job loss is likely to elicit negative thoughts that have adverse consequences for not only job satisfaction, but also all-around happiness and satisfaction with life. Using nationally representative cross-sectional da…
View article: The Contribution of Girls’ Longer Hours in Unpaid Work to Gender Gaps in Early Adult Employment: Evidence from Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam
The Contribution of Girls’ Longer Hours in Unpaid Work to Gender Gaps in Early Adult Employment: Evidence from Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam Open
Across many countries girls perform more unpaid work than boys. This article shows how time spent in unpaid household work by young women and girls contributes to the gender pay gap which is already evident by age 22. We analyse employment…
View article: School closures and educational attainment in Ethiopia: Can extra classes help children to catch up?
School closures and educational attainment in Ethiopia: Can extra classes help children to catch up? Open
School closures impact children's attainment adversely, but understanding the effects of closures on children's attainment in lower‐income countries is still limited. Addressing this deficit, this study examines how past school closures ha…
View article: Dead-end jobs or steppingstones? Precarious work in Albania
Dead-end jobs or steppingstones? Precarious work in Albania Open
Purpose This study asks whether lower quality forms of employment lead to career transitions into higher quality forms of employment acting as steppingstones, or bridges or, whether instead they lead to dead-ends, or traps, in which worker…
View article: Gendered workload allocation in universities: A feminist analysis of practices and possibilities in a European University
Gendered workload allocation in universities: A feminist analysis of practices and possibilities in a European University Open
The negotiated allocation of teaching and institutional service workload in universities is a key determinant of the quantity and quality of all work for academic staff. There is abundant quantitative evidence that women and men experience…
View article: Well‐being and employment of young people in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam: Is work enough?
Well‐being and employment of young people in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam: Is work enough? Open
Summary Motivation Investing in youth employment is central to development agendas. However, policy directed towards increasing employment rates among young people needs to consider the well‐being implications of the different kinds of job…
View article: Wage effects of educational mismatch and job search in Ghana and Kenya
Wage effects of educational mismatch and job search in Ghana and Kenya Open
Education is key to development strategies in Africa. We use overeducation and undereducation to analyse the effectiveness of education in preparing individuals for employment in Kenya and Ghana, using the Skills Towards Employment and Pro…
View article: The Menopause Taboo at Work: Examining Women’s Embodied Experiences of Menopause in the UK Police Service
The Menopause Taboo at Work: Examining Women’s Embodied Experiences of Menopause in the UK Police Service Open
This article contributes to the growing body of knowledge about gendered ageing at work through an examination of the embodied experiences of women undergoing menopause transition in the UK police service. Drawing on 1197 survey responses,…
View article: Why work? Disability, family care and employment
This article seeks to examine the ways in which ‘work’ is a crucial domain within a holistic approach to understanding disability and family life. The research is based on the experiences of 49 people who either self-identified as dis…
Why work? Disability, family care and employment Open
This article seeks to examine the ways in which ‘work’ is a crucial domain within a holistic approach to understanding disability and family life. The research is based on the experiences of 49 people who either self-identified as dis…
View article: Review for "The effect of employment on the subjective well-being of 60–80 years old people"
Review for "The effect of employment on the subjective well-being of 60–80 years old people" Open
View article: Education of Biological and Fostered Children in Ghana: The Influence of Relationships with the Household Head and Household Structure
Education of Biological and Fostered Children in Ghana: The Influence of Relationships with the Household Head and Household Structure Open
This study investigates how household structure and relationship with head of household impact on the education of children in Ghana. We estimate educational participation and selectivity‐corrected educational progress conditional on parti…
View article: Evidence on intergenerational income transmission using complete Dutch population data
Evidence on intergenerational income transmission using complete Dutch population data Open
View article: Adverse Effects of Social Security on Disabled People and Their Families in the UK: Iatrogenic Outcomes of Quasi-Clinical Administration
Adverse Effects of Social Security on Disabled People and Their Families in the UK: Iatrogenic Outcomes of Quasi-Clinical Administration Open
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis many countries embarked on a prolonged period of public sector ‘austerity’ which for some included seeking dramatic reductions in social security spending. It is in this context that the resear…
View article: Health and Well-being of Young People in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam: Life Course Impacts
Health and Well-being of Young People in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam: Life Course Impacts Open
Using data from four waves of the Young Lives longitudinal survey, we follow the lives of 3,064 eight-year-old children over 12 years in four developing countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam) to explore the links between children…
View article: What can employers do to address social wellbeing
What can employers do to address social wellbeing Open
While making their new year’s resolutions for 2019, employers may be deciding to scale up their model, or be making plans to remain agile in difficult markets. However, on that list of objectives, and not as an afterthought, needs to be a …
View article: Evidence on Intergenerational Income Transmission Using Complete Dutch Population Data
Evidence on Intergenerational Income Transmission Using Complete Dutch Population Data Open
View article: Activity in the third age: Examining the relationship between careers and retirement experiences
Activity in the third age: Examining the relationship between careers and retirement experiences Open
View article: In-vitro Thermal Maps to Characterize Human Dental Enamel and Dentin
In-vitro Thermal Maps to Characterize Human Dental Enamel and Dentin Open
The crown of a human tooth has an outer layer of highly-mineralized tissue called enamel, beneath which is dentin, a less-mineralized tissue which forms the bulk of the tooth-crown and root. The composition and structure of enamel and dent…
View article: Informal care: choice or constraint?
Informal care: choice or constraint? Open
Background ‘Choice’ is increasingly pursued as a goal of social policy. However, the degree to which choice is exercised when entering an informal caring role is open to debate. Aim In this study, we examined the degree of choice and const…
View article: Career Pathways into Retirement in the UK: Linking Older Women's Pasts to the Present
Career Pathways into Retirement in the UK: Linking Older Women's Pasts to the Present Open
Understanding of how women's experiences in retirement are shaped by their pre‐retirement lives is limited. In this paper we utilize an innovative mix of measures to examine the link between career histories and expectations and experience…
View article: Workplace health and wellbeing in construction and retail
Workplace health and wellbeing in construction and retail Open
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of the health and wellbeing issues faced within the construction and retail sectors and the difficulties faced in addressing these issues. Design/methodology/approach – This is a…
View article: Unpaid caregiving and paid work over life-courses: Different pathways, diverging outcomes
Unpaid caregiving and paid work over life-courses: Different pathways, diverging outcomes Open
View article: Workplace wellbeing programmes and their impact on employees and their employing organisations: a scoping review of the evidence base
Workplace wellbeing programmes and their impact on employees and their employing organisations: a scoping review of the evidence base Open
This report constitutes a scoping literature review that identifies and critically examines the evidence base surrounding health and wellbeing programmes conducted in the workplace and their impact on employees and their employing organisa…
View article: Choice and wellbeing in informal care
Choice and wellbeing in informal care Open
Choice' is increasingly pursued as a goal of social policy. However the degree to which choice is exercised when entering an informal care role is open to debate. In this study of UK carers, we examined whether caring was perceived as a fr…
View article: The lifetime cost to English students of borrowing to invest in a medical degree: a gender comparison using data from the Office for National Statistics
The lifetime cost to English students of borrowing to invest in a medical degree: a gender comparison using data from the Office for National Statistics Open
Objective To evaluate this impact on male and female English medical graduates by estimating the total time and amount repaid on loans taken out with the UK's Student Loans Company (SLC). Setting UK. Participants 4286 respondents with a me…