Labour market, job opportunities, and transitions to self-employment: Evidence from Switzerland from the mid-1960s to the late 1980s

M Buchmann, I Kriesi, S Sacchi - European Sociological Review, 2009 - academic.oup.com
… often take labour-market opportunity structures measured at … ), we expect employment in
the service sector to facilitate … the transitions taking place within the first four or five jobs only. …

Constrained geographical mobility and gendered labor market outcomes under structural adjustment: Evidence from Egypt

R Assaad, M Arntz - World Development, 2005 - Elsevier
… to the changing opportunity structures brought about by structural … for males and females,
in 1988 and 1998, in three sectors: … information about job and residential location down to the …

Poverty and opportunity structure in rural America

AR Tickamyer, CM Duncan - Annual review of sociology, 1990 - annualreviews.org
located outside metropolitan sta tistical areas have one fifth of the nation's population but
one third of the poor. Jobs … Because women frequently are not employed in the formal labor …

Gender and the separation of employment from home in metropolitan Montreal, 1971–1981

P Villeneuve, D Rose - Urban Geography, 1988 - Taylor & Francis
… their place of residence with respect to the man’s job location, … by female employment in
the financial sector (Fig. 8b). More than 40% of the jobs held by women in this sector are located

Employment location and associated commuting patterns for individuals in disadvantaged rural areas in Northern Ireland

JE Moss, CG Jack, MT Wallace - Regional Studies, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Male employment is concentrated in declining traditional industries and rural males travel
lengthy distances to work. Mobility … For all females, employment is concentrated in the areas of …

Labor market structure and fertility differences among Puerto Rican women: The effects of economic and social policies on opportunity costs

BA Zsembik - Population Research and Policy Review, 1990 - Springer
… limited the structure of employment opportunities for women, … under which the interview
takes place. Informal economic activity … of employment opportunities for women or for men. The …

The new technology and the new economy: Some implications for equal employment opportunity

TJ Noyelle - Computer chips and paper clips, 1987 - books.google.com
… efforts were focused on industries and work settings that were … women and minority workers
from entering white men's jobs … put in place special efforts to assist minority men who appear …

Market transformation and the opportunity structure for gender inequality: A cohort analysis using linked employer-employee data from Slovenia

J King, AM Penner, N Bandelj, A Kanjuo-Mrčela - Social Science Research, 2017 - Elsevier
… In their analysis of the US, they argue that allocating men and women to differently-paid jobs
… As individuals across cohorts are at different stages of their career and different locations in …

Does gender matter for job creation? Business ownership and employment growth

T Conroy, S Weiler - Small Business Economics, 2016 - Springer
… amenity locations and consequently require a wage premium to work in low amenity areas.
In high amenity … To ensure that we test the effect of male and female business ownership on …

Race, place, and unsolicited job leads: How the ethnoracial structure of local labor markets shapes employment opportunities

S McDonald, L Hamm, JR Elliott… - Social Currents, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
… of employment opportunities? To address this question, we link Census data on racial
composition with survey data on unsolicited job leads in the 23 largest US metro areas. … segments