Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study and the Current Population Survey, we find that labor market conditions play a large role in explaining the positive relationship between educational attainment and marriage. Our results suggest that if loweducated parents enjoyed the same, stronger labor market conditions as their more-educated counterparts, then differences in mar...

A factor that complicates female labor supply analyses is the variety of ways in which women engage in productive work. Besides wage labor these include ‘home’ work (nonparticipation), work without pay in a family enterprise, and paid work on one’s own account. We combine the last two (as self-employed) but treat unemployment as a fourth distinct state, and examine the participation choices of ...

This article examines corporate labor and gender relations in transatlantic perspective. It is argued that the gendered communication of IBM’s Thomas Watson, Sr. shaped labor relations in his company’s West German subsidiary. In the United States, Watson acted as a business progressive, expanding internationally, opening professional careers to young women, and implementing welfare capitalist m...

since early of 1970s, composition of the labor force changed and increased the number of women in work place. coordinating work and family responsibilities became a problem to employees and even organizations. hr professionals and managers had decided to find a solution to this challenge. although many studies have been done to identify and solve problems in this area and many concepts created ...

Taller workers earn more, particularly in lower income settings. It has been argued that adult height is a marker of strength which is rewarded in the labor market; a proxy for cognitive performance or other dimensions of human capital such as school quality; a proxy for health status; and a proxy for family background and genetic characteristics. As a result, the argument goes, height is rewar...

As thrombin is proposed to be involved in stimulating myometrial contractility during labor and preterm labor, we aimed to investigate the expression of prothrombin (F7), the precursor of thrombin, its receptors, the protease-activated receptor (PAR) family (F2R, F2RL1, F2RL2, and F2RL3), and prothrombinase FGL2 in human myometrium during pregnancy and labor. Messenger RNA and protein were isol...