Career orientations, career success and perceived self-efficacy of women employees in relation to their gender identity were studied. It was hypothesized that gender identity is related to career orientations such that women with a masculine gender identity strive for more upward mobility as...

We estimate a model of labour supply and participation in multiple cash and in-kind welfare programmes. The modeling exploits a reform that affected U.K. single mothers. In-work cash entitlements increased under this reform but eligibility to in-kind child nutrition programmes was lost for some...

Mehr als ein Fünftel der Erwerbstätigen in Deutschland sind Teilzeitbeschäftigte. Seit Anfang 2001 ist das Gesetz über Teilzeitarbeit und befristete Arbeitsverträge (Teilzeit- und Befristungsgesetz) in Kraft. Es hat die weitere Ausweitung der Teilzeit und die Schaffung neuer Stellen zum...

"Produktion und Reproduktion in einer Gesellschaft, ihre Arbeits- und Sozialordnung sowie die gesamtgesellschaftlichen Arrangements in Familie und Erwerbsarbeit basieren auf einem mehr oder weniger explizit formulierten 'Gesellschaftsvertrag' (social contract). Der jeweilige 'social contract'...

The status of faculty women in higher education in the U.S. is reviewed from the early 1970s, when equal employment legislation became applicable to them, to the present time. On balance, faculty women's status has improved markedly. In the past thirty five years, women have made large strides...

We use data from Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden to examine whether part-time and intermittent work during early motherhood leads to regular full-time work later. We find that in Sweden, by the time the first child is four years old 80 percent of mothers are working full-time...