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Gender inequality and involuntary part-time work [PDF]
Il lavoro a tempo parziale costituisce una forma di impiego adatta a conciliare esigenze individuali legate alla sfera privata (formazione, tempo libero), familiare (cura di figli e/o familiari, lavoro domestico) e lavorativa.
De Marco, Cinzia
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MODELLING INVOLUNTARY PART-TIME AND FIXED-TERM EMPLOYMENT AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS IN BULGARIA [PDF]
, 2017 With the labour market becoming increasingly flexible, there has been a growing trend towards non-standard models of temporary employment that allow persons who, for some reason, prefer fixed-term or part-time employment to earn income.
Dimitrov, Plamen
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“I'm a Good Guy Who Deserves Better, Yet Nobody Wants to Give me Better”: The Accounts of Nice Guys
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Within Western popular culture and online discourse, a “Nice Guy” is someone who enacts niceness for which they believe they are owed, deserving of, or entitled to something in return—especially the romantic or sexual attention of women. In this study, we examine the use of accounts in personal narratives told in an anonymous online discussion forum ...
Brooke Weinmann, Dennis D. Waskul
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So close, so far? : part-time employment and its effects on gender equality in Italy and Spain [PDF]
, 2019 This chapter analyses the cleavages among the insiders and outsiders of different groups of women in Italy and Spain with a particular focus on part-time employment. Given the prevalence of dualisation in Southern European labour markets, people employed
Lara Maestripieri +3 more
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Constructing Difference: Maternal Boundary‐Work in Science‐Based and Natural Mom Groups on Facebook
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Boundary‐work describes the activities of social groups as they seek to differentiate themselves from others to establish credibility, authority, or to protect their interests. While a growing body of literature explores occupational boundary‐work in health care, limited research has focused on how lay actors practice boundary‐work online.
Darryn DiFrancesco
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Portable Radar for Noncontact Heart Rate Monitoring and Estrus Detection in Dairy Cows
IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, EarlyView.This study introduces a portable radar system for real‐time monitoring of respiratory and heart rates in dairy cows. It uses millimeter‐wave Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar to perform noncontact physiological sensing, reducing behavioral disturbance. The radar system's design prioritizes portability, cost‐effectiveness, and robustness,
Yingxiu Li +7 more
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores an understudied question of who teaches English in the Singaporean English language teaching (ELT) industry. Study 1 analyzed the website contents of ESL schools, and Study 2 conducted questionnaire surveys and interviews with three schools.
Yoko Kobayashi
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Have the early coordination failures models achieved Keynes’s programme ? [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to assess how three seminal coordination failure models (Diamond ((1982)1991), Howitt (1985) and Roberts (1987) have fared against ‘Keynes’s programme’. The first part of the paper characterises Keyne’s programme as consisting of
Michel, DE VROEY
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UroPrecision, EarlyView.Abstract Surgical intervention for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) can lead to postoperative stress urinary incontinence. Pelvic floor muscle exercises (PFME) are proposed as a non‐invasive strategy to mitigate symptoms, but their efficacy and optimal timing remain unclear.
Sidharth Panda +6 more
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Partner Choice and Women's Paid Work in Sweden - The Role of Earnings [PDF]
Recent observations of higher labour -market activity among women with a high-earning spouse and widened household inequality have spurred research interest in earnings homogamy and in effects of own and spouse’s earnings on female labour supply.
Henz, Ursula, Sundström, Marianne
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