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Employment opportunities and pre-marital births in Britain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
In 1999, nearly two-fifths of births in Britain were outside marriage. This study estimates the impact of employment opportunities in the local labour market on the probability that a childless never married woman has a birth outside marriage.
Ermisch, John
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Framing Effects on Public Support and Behavioral Responses to Sustainable Forest Management in South Korea

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite South Korea's extensive forest coverage, which accounts for approximately 63% of its total land area, the country imports over 83% of its timber needs and has shown a gradual decline in forest carbon sequestration capacity. The Circular Forest Management Policy (CFMP) addresses these challenges through systematic forest resource ...
Seoryeon Son   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coping Strategies of Delayed Transition-To-Work of Higher Institution Graduates in Sebeta, Oromia Region

open access: yesEthiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities
The school-to-work transition marks a critical turning point, making young individuals’ shift from formal education to the labour market and their quest for economic independence. In Ethiopia, however, a growing number of higher education graduates,
Berhanu Girma, Kassahun Asres
doaj   +1 more source

Some Pluralism About Pluralism: A Comment on Hanoch Dagan’s “Pluralism and Perfectionism in Private Law” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Hanoch Dagan is among “those who think it advantageous to get as much ethics into the law as they can,” in the phrase of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. His pluralism is a perfectionism for polytheists: There are many human goods, and each has its domain ...
Purdy, Jedediah
core   +2 more sources

Pandemic Im/mobilities, reproductive injustices, and assisted reproductive technology use among Taiwanese LGBTQ parents

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how mobility restrictions imposed by governments during the COVID‐19 pandemic intensified reproductive and mobility injustices. It traces shifting configurations of privilege and inequality within marginalized groups whose reproductive desires remain legally and socially unrecognized.
Sara L. Friedman
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the local marriage market: The influence of modernization on geographical heterogamy

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2010
This study examines whether the increase of geographical heterogamy in the nineteenth and early twentieth century is related to modernization. Specifically, we test whether mass communication and mass transport enhanced the likelihood of a geographically
Ineke Maas, Richard Zijdeman
doaj  

Fertility, Living Arrangements, Care and Mobility [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
There are four main interconnecting themes around which the contributions in this book are based. This introductory chapter aims to establish the broad context for the chapters that follow by discussing each of the themes.
A. Berrington   +115 more
core   +2 more sources

Guidance or Misdirection? Unpacking the Role of Feedback in Health Preference Assessments

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigated the impact of providing feedback to respondents on a dominance‐structured choice task on subsequent choice behavior in a discrete choice experiment (DCE). The DCE was conducted among 626 patients with heart failure. Respondents were given a dominance‐structured choice task in which two devices (Device A and Device B ...
Mesfin G. Genie   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of marriage in immigrants' human capital investment under liquidity constraints [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper presents a two-period human capital investment model of married and single immigrants under binding liquidity constraints, which explains alternative patterns in the host country's labor market.
Cohen-Goldner, Sarit   +2 more
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Developing a Typology of Korean Women Leaders' Resistance to Their Token Status in the Workplace

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite remarkable economic development in South Korea (Korea), there are only a few women leaders, and they face challenges in the gendered workplace where organizational constraints and traditional values coexist. In a reanalysis of narratives of Korean women leaders (KWLs), using an ideal‐type analysis as a novel qualitative research method,
Yonjoo Cho   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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