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Mooi-Reci, Irma; Mills, Melinda – Social Forces, 2012
This study examines whether a series of unemployment insurance benefit reforms that took place over a 20-year period in the Netherlands had a gendered effect on the duration of unemployment and labor market outcomes. Using longitudinal data from the Dutch Labor Supply Panel (OSA) over the period 1980-2000, and adopting a quasi-experimental design,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Unemployment, Insurance, Gender Differences
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Treas, Judith; van der Lippe, Tanja; Tai, Tsui-o Chloe – Social Forces, 2011
A long-standing debate questions whether homemakers or working wives are happier. Drawing on cross-national data for 28 countries, this research uses multi-level models to provide fresh evidence on this controversy. All things considered, homemakers are slightly happier than wives who work fulltime, but they have no advantage over part-time…
Descriptors: Labor Force Nonparticipants, Spouses, Marital Status, Homemakers
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Bolzendahl, Catherine; Brooks, Clem – Social Forces, 2007
One of the sharpest criticisms of welfare state research is insufficient attention to factors relating to gender relations and inequalities. Recent scholarship has begun to address welfare state effects on gender-related outcomes, but the evaluation of theories of welfare development with respect to gender factors is somewhat less developed,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Political Power, Labor Force
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Del Campo, Esther – Social Forces, 2005
This article attempts to offer a general panorama of some issues related to political representation of women in Latin America. Specifically, it analyzes the advances made in the representation of women in politics during the 1990s. It offers a descriptive analysis of national cases in Latin America from an institutional focus. In spite of the…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Foreign Countries, Politics, Females