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Precarious Care Labor: Contradictory Work Regulations and Practices for Au Pairs in Sweden
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2016 This paper focuses on the rules and regulations relating to au pair work in Sweden, and how these rules correlate with au pairing practices. The precarious position of au pairs has been highlighted before, but in addition, au pairs coming to Sweden also ...
Terese Anving, Sara Eldén
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015 Due to the segregated labor market, gender differences in health are often confounded by factors such as sector or occupation. This study explored similarities and differences in work climate and health complaints among women and men working in the same ...
Helena Falkenberg +3 more
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015 It is a well-known fact that workplace restructuring has undesirable effects on the psychosocial work environment, health, and sick leave, but no attention has been given to the health effects of work environments characterized by restructuring, a ...
Heidi Enehaug, Svenn-Erik Mamelund
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Aging and T-cell diversity☆ [PDF]
Experimental Gerontology, 2007 Naïve and memory CD4 and CD8 T cells constitute a highly dynamic system with constant homeostatic and antigen-driven proliferation, influx, and loss of T cells. Thymic activity dwindles with age and essentially ceases in the later decades of life, severely constraining the generation of new T cells.
Jörg J, Goronzy +2 more
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Entrepreneurship and Gender Equality in Academia – a Complex Combination in Practice
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015 This article takes as its starting point two current trends in academia – the promotion of academic entrepreneurship and innovation and the promotion of gender equality – and discusses how different gender equality perspectives are interwoven, or not ...
Britt-Inger Keisu +2 more
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Choosing to Work? Mothers Return-to-Work Decisions, Social Class, and the Local Labor Market
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015 The aim of this study is to examine the ways in which social class shapes the return-to-work decisions of Finnish working-class and middle-class mothers, and how these decisions are structured by the constraints and opportunities mothers face in the ...
Tiina Sihto
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Changing Structures and Women’s Role as Labor Force
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015 The objective of this paper is to analyze changes in the development of women’s role as labor force over a 40-year period. This is done by presenting research results that concern the restructuring of the labor market over different time periods.
Lena Gonäs, Arja Tyrkkö
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Possible Effects of the Financial Crisis on Managers’ Attitudes to Older Workers
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012 The article explores the possible short-term effects of the financial crisis in Norway on cognitive, affective, and behavioral components of managers’ attitudes to older workers.
Per Erik Solem
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Managers’ Beliefs about Measures to Retain Senior Workforce
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012 This paper aims to describe and explain the beliefs of public sector managers regarding measures to promote active ageing within organizations and how these beliefs can relate to their own attitudes, age, gender, organizational roles, and structures ...
Reidar J. Mykletun +2 more
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Employer Brand Opens up for a Gender Process Model
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2011 Regardless of a long tradition of legislation, policymaking and practical achievements, the issues ofgender equality and of the segregated labor market still remain a matter of concern in Sweden.
Hans Lundkvist
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