P A Mcmanus
Biographic Data
| ID | 69974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P A Mcmanus |
| GIVEN NAMES | P A |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcmanus |
| SIGNATURE | MCMANUS P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0954-4517 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 413 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Mothers’ caregiving experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic while feeding children in urban Mexico
This article aims to explore urban Mexican mothers’ experiences when feeding during the COVID-19 pandemic through a qualitative interview study. We recruited 21 coupled mothers in Guadalajara, Mexico. We employed critical qualitative inquiry to analyze the data. Results suggest that the pandemic modified social dynamics, causing stress and exhaustion among family members, though women remained accountable for feeding their families, indicating un…
Political (dis)interest during the transition to adulthood among immigrant adolescents in four Western countries
Marital Conflict and Healthy Dietary Habits Among Preschoolers: A Study of the Experience of Coupled Women in Urban Mexico
In Mexico social dynamics are changing toward less traditional arrangements. With a qualitative interview study, we explore the link between marital conflict and mothers' ability to foster healthy dietary habits. Sample consisted of 21 middle-class cohabitating mothers of preschoolers. Results suggests that marital conflict leads women to experiences of tension, ambivalence, or inaction on fostering healthy eating habits. Parents' mismatch in gen…
The correlates of childrearing marital conflict in Mexico according to urban women parenting preschoolers
Generational Dissonance or Cultural Persistence? European Immigration and the Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Beliefs
Contemporary perspectives on gender highlight the multilevel processes that maintain the gender system, from the hegemonic cultural beliefs embedded in state institutions to the gendered interactions that occur in everyday life. This study investigates immigration as a source of diversity and adaptation in the gender system. Using data on immigrant and native adolescents in the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey in Four European Countries…
Ways of Reading
Antiutopianism: An Introduction
Utopia is endangered today! Such a sentence seems redundant: utopia—the shape of the possibility that things could be better—is always in danger. But the present danger is something distinct from the dangers that historically have attended utopia. These have not gone away but, added to them, and largely superseding utopia’s other perils in our twenty-first century, is the disappearance of utopianism from the culture and politics that dominate our…
Atlantic Crossings
Patricia McManus on Joe Cleary, Modernism, Empire, World Literature. Close readings of the Anglophone modernist canon, capturing a world literary system caught between European decline and American ascent
Parsing the Personal
Transformative programmes for literary criticism as radical ‘aesthetic education’—and the methodological and material obstacles they may encounter. Patricia McManus continues the discussion begun by Francis Mulhern, Lola Seaton and Joseph North
Female labor force participation in the US: How is immigration shaping recent trends
Cultural Persistence and Labor Force Participation among Partnered Second-Generation Women in the United States
Women who migrate to the United States often face structural and cultural obstacles when joining the workforce. The US-born daughters of these women show considerable upward mobility, yet recent scholarship finds substantial variation in the employment of second-generation women by parental country of origin. This study assesses whether gender traditionalism in the parental country of origin has a persistent effect on the labor force participatio…
Parental Origins, Mixed Unions, and the Labor Supply of Second-Generation Women in the United States
This study examines the joint impact of parental origins and partner choice on the employment behavior of second-generation women in the United States. We find that endogamy (choosing a first- or second-generation partner from the same national-origin group) is associated with lower labor supply among second-generation women, net of the effects of parental origin culture as proxied using the epidemiological approach to cultural transmission. Pare…
Happy Dystopians
Fears of mass culture generating visions of rule not by fear, but by the narcotics of conformity and abolition of privacy, in the fiction of Huxley and Eggers—‘total sociability’ resistable only by figures of the doomed individual. The fading even of high culture as notional refuge in the passage beyond the Brave New World
Immigrant Educational Mismatch in Western Europe, Apparent or Real
Are immigrant workers in developed nations relegated to labour market positions that are beneath their qualification and skill level? This article uses newly available data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies to examine immigrant economic incorporation in 13 European nations. Our analyses show that immigrants in Europe are significantly more likely than natives to hold educational qualifications above those n…
Modernization, Globalization, Trends, and Convergence in Health Expenditure in Latin America and the Caribbean
Are health care systems converging in developing nations? We use the case of health care financing in Latin America between 1995 and 2009 to assess the predictions of modernization theory, competing strands of globalization theory, and accounts of persistent cross-national differences. As predicted by modernization theory, we find convergence in overall health spending. The public share of health spending increased over this time period, with no …
Application of a Mixed Methods Approach to Identify Community-Level Solutions to Decrease Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality
Different Reasons, Different Results: Implications of Migration by Gender and Family Status
Previous research on migration and gendered career outcomes centers on couples and rarely examines the reason for the move. The implicit assumption is usually that households migrate in response to job opportunities. Based on a two-year panel from the Current Population Survey, this article uses stated reasons for geographic mobility to compare earnings outcomes among job migrants, family migrants, and quality-of-life migrants by gender and famil…
Geographical mobility over the life course: Motivations and implications
Studies of geographical mobility are typically divided into studies of residential mobility, which are assumed to be motivated by family factors, and studies of migration, which are assumed to be motivated by the opportunities for realising economic gains as a result of the move. We use a life course approach and data from the 1999–2005 March Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey to investigate the age trajectorie…
Paying the price for reconciling work and family life: Comparing the wage penalty for women's part-time work in Britain, Germany and the United States
A comparison of the institutional context of part-time employment in Britain, Germany and the United States forms the backdrop for this study of women's part-time work and wage penalties in each country. Results using panel data and fixed-effects wage estimates show three distinct “part-time regimes”. Germany has the lowest female labour force participation rates, and the smallest penalties for part-time employment. The United States and Britain …
Women’s Participation in Self-Employment in Western Industrialized Nations
Women account for an increasing share of the self-employed in many post-industrial economies. This article reviews recent empirical research on self-employment among women, beginning with a comparison of women and men in self-employment, noting key differences between self-employed women and their counterparts in wage and salary jobs. This is followed by a review of labor-market and family-based theoretical explanptions for these patterns in orde…
Losers and Winners: The Financial Consequences of Separation and Divorce for Men
Contrary to conventional thinking, the majority of partnered men in the United States lose economic status when their unions dissolve. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this analysis shows that for most men the primary source of economic decline after union dissolution is their inability to fully compensate for the loss of their partner's income. A secondary source of economic decline is an increase in compulsory and voluntary s…
Market, State, and the Quality of New Self-Employment Jobs among Men in the U.S. and Western Germany
Recent scholarship suggests that a new form of low-quality, contingent self employment is taking hold in postindustrial economies. Using longitudinal data on men from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the German Socio-Economic Panel, I find that on average men in Germany and the U.S. do not fare poorly in self-employment, and in both countries a substantial number of new self-employment jobs offer prospects for earnings and stability that ri…
Beyond Kyoto? Media Representation of an Environmental Issue
Human‐induced climatic change, and particularly the enhanced greenhouse effect, became significant environmental issues in the 1990s. They were given prominent coverage in the Australian media at the time of the Third Conference of the Parties to the Climate Convention (COP3) in Kyoto in 1997, when Australia obtained permission for an 8 per cent increase in its greenhouse gas emissions by 2012. Meanwhile, other major emitters of greenhouse gases …
Family Change, Employment Transitions, and the Welfare State: Household Income Dynamics in the United States and Germany
Since the demise of modernization theory, social scientists have sought explanations for persisting differences in the stratification of industrialized societies, primarily by studying how educational and labor market institutions shape the life chances of individuals. This approach undervalues two key features of any stratification system: family dynamics and the welfare state. Employment changes, changes in household composition, and changes in…
Market, Family, and State Sources of Income Instability in Germany and the United States
Family Change, Employment Transitions, and the Welfare State: Household Income Dynamics in the United States and Germany
Since the demise of modernization theory, social scientists have sought explanations for persisting differences in the stratification of industrialized societies, primarily by studying how educational and labor market institutions shape the life chances of individuals. This approach undervalues two key features of any stratification system: family dynamics and the welfare state. Employment changes, changes in household composition, and changes in…
Losers and Winners: The Financial Consequences of Separation and Divorce for Men
Contrary to conventional thinking, the majority of partnered men in the United States lose economic status when their unions dissolve. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this analysis shows that for most men the primary source of economic decline after union dissolution is their inability to fully compensate for the loss of their partner's income. A secondary source of economic decline is an increase in compulsory and voluntary s…
Geographical mobility over the life course: Motivations and implications
Studies of geographical mobility are typically divided into studies of residential mobility, which are assumed to be motivated by family factors, and studies of migration, which are assumed to be motivated by the opportunities for realising economic gains as a result of the move. We use a life course approach and data from the 1999–2005 March Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey to investigate the age trajectorie…
Different Reasons, Different Results: Implications of Migration by Gender and Family Status
Previous research on migration and gendered career outcomes centers on couples and rarely examines the reason for the move. The implicit assumption is usually that households migrate in response to job opportunities. Based on a two-year panel from the Current Population Survey, this article uses stated reasons for geographic mobility to compare earnings outcomes among job migrants, family migrants, and quality-of-life migrants by gender and famil…
Institutions, Technical Change, and Diverging Life Chances: Earnings Mobility in the United States and Germany
Some scholars argue that growing wage inequality stems primarily from technical rather than institutional factors. However, this conclusion assumes that institutional differences operate chiefly at the level of individual industries. This article argues in contrast that important institutional effects are countrywide and demonstrates the effect of country-level institutional differences by comparing recent earnings dynamics in the United States a…
Paying the price for reconciling work and family life: Comparing the wage penalty for women's part-time work in Britain, Germany and the United States
A comparison of the institutional context of part-time employment in Britain, Germany and the United States forms the backdrop for this study of women's part-time work and wage penalties in each country. Results using panel data and fixed-effects wage estimates show three distinct “part-time regimes”. Germany has the lowest female labour force participation rates, and the smallest penalties for part-time employment. The United States and Britain …
Women’s Participation in Self-Employment in Western Industrialized Nations
Women account for an increasing share of the self-employed in many post-industrial economies. This article reviews recent empirical research on self-employment among women, beginning with a comparison of women and men in self-employment, noting key differences between self-employed women and their counterparts in wage and salary jobs. This is followed by a review of labor-market and family-based theoretical explanptions for these patterns in orde…
Market, Family, and State Sources of Income Instability in Germany and the United States
Immigrant Educational Mismatch in Western Europe, Apparent or Real
Are immigrant workers in developed nations relegated to labour market positions that are beneath their qualification and skill level? This article uses newly available data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies to examine immigrant economic incorporation in 13 European nations. Our analyses show that immigrants in Europe are significantly more likely than natives to hold educational qualifications above those n…
Parental Origins, Mixed Unions, and the Labor Supply of Second-Generation Women in the United States
This study examines the joint impact of parental origins and partner choice on the employment behavior of second-generation women in the United States. We find that endogamy (choosing a first- or second-generation partner from the same national-origin group) is associated with lower labor supply among second-generation women, net of the effects of parental origin culture as proxied using the epidemiological approach to cultural transmission. Pare…
Beyond Kyoto? Media Representation of an Environmental Issue
Human‐induced climatic change, and particularly the enhanced greenhouse effect, became significant environmental issues in the 1990s. They were given prominent coverage in the Australian media at the time of the Third Conference of the Parties to the Climate Convention (COP3) in Kyoto in 1997, when Australia obtained permission for an 8 per cent increase in its greenhouse gas emissions by 2012. Meanwhile, other major emitters of greenhouse gases …
Female labor force participation in the US: How is immigration shaping recent trends
Application of a Mixed Methods Approach to Identify Community-Level Solutions to Decrease Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality
Social Change and the Middle Classes
Institutions, Technical Change, and Diverging Life Chances: Earnings Mobility in the United States and Germany
Some scholars argue that growing wage inequality stems primarily from technical rather than institutional factors. However, this conclusion assumes that institutional differences operate chiefly at the level of individual industries. This article argues in contrast that important institutional effects are countrywide and demonstrates the effect of country-level institutional differences by comparing recent earnings dynamics in the United States a…
Market, State, and the Quality of New Self-Employment Jobs among Men in the U.S. and Western Germany
Recent scholarship suggests that a new form of low-quality, contingent self employment is taking hold in postindustrial economies. Using longitudinal data on men from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the German Socio-Economic Panel, I find that on average men in Germany and the U.S. do not fare poorly in self-employment, and in both countries a substantial number of new self-employment jobs offer prospects for earnings and stability that ri…
Beyond Kyoto? Media Representation of an Environmental Issue
Human‐induced climatic change, and particularly the enhanced greenhouse effect, became significant environmental issues in the 1990s. They were given prominent coverage in the Australian media at the time of the Third Conference of the Parties to the Climate Convention (COP3) in Kyoto in 1997, when Australia obtained permission for an 8 per cent increase in its greenhouse gas emissions by 2012. Meanwhile, other major emitters of greenhouse gases …
Family Change, Employment Transitions, and the Welfare State: Household Income Dynamics in the United States and Germany
Since the demise of modernization theory, social scientists have sought explanations for persisting differences in the stratification of industrialized societies, primarily by studying how educational and labor market institutions shape the life chances of individuals. This approach undervalues two key features of any stratification system: family dynamics and the welfare state. Employment changes, changes in household composition, and changes in…
Market, Family, and State Sources of Income Instability in Germany and the United States
Women’s Participation in Self-Employment in Western Industrialized Nations
Women account for an increasing share of the self-employed in many post-industrial economies. This article reviews recent empirical research on self-employment among women, beginning with a comparison of women and men in self-employment, noting key differences between self-employed women and their counterparts in wage and salary jobs. This is followed by a review of labor-market and family-based theoretical explanptions for these patterns in orde…
Losers and Winners: The Financial Consequences of Separation and Divorce for Men
Contrary to conventional thinking, the majority of partnered men in the United States lose economic status when their unions dissolve. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this analysis shows that for most men the primary source of economic decline after union dissolution is their inability to fully compensate for the loss of their partner's income. A secondary source of economic decline is an increase in compulsory and voluntary s…
Paying the price for reconciling work and family life: Comparing the wage penalty for women's part-time work in Britain, Germany and the United States
A comparison of the institutional context of part-time employment in Britain, Germany and the United States forms the backdrop for this study of women's part-time work and wage penalties in each country. Results using panel data and fixed-effects wage estimates show three distinct “part-time regimes”. Germany has the lowest female labour force participation rates, and the smallest penalties for part-time employment. The United States and Britain …
Geographical mobility over the life course: Motivations and implications
Studies of geographical mobility are typically divided into studies of residential mobility, which are assumed to be motivated by family factors, and studies of migration, which are assumed to be motivated by the opportunities for realising economic gains as a result of the move. We use a life course approach and data from the 1999–2005 March Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey to investigate the age trajectorie…
Different Reasons, Different Results: Implications of Migration by Gender and Family Status
Previous research on migration and gendered career outcomes centers on couples and rarely examines the reason for the move. The implicit assumption is usually that households migrate in response to job opportunities. Based on a two-year panel from the Current Population Survey, this article uses stated reasons for geographic mobility to compare earnings outcomes among job migrants, family migrants, and quality-of-life migrants by gender and famil…
Application of a Mixed Methods Approach to Identify Community-Level Solutions to Decrease Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality
Modernization, Globalization, Trends, and Convergence in Health Expenditure in Latin America and the Caribbean
Are health care systems converging in developing nations? We use the case of health care financing in Latin America between 1995 and 2009 to assess the predictions of modernization theory, competing strands of globalization theory, and accounts of persistent cross-national differences. As predicted by modernization theory, we find convergence in overall health spending. The public share of health spending increased over this time period, with no …
Immigrant Educational Mismatch in Western Europe, Apparent or Real
Are immigrant workers in developed nations relegated to labour market positions that are beneath their qualification and skill level? This article uses newly available data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies to examine immigrant economic incorporation in 13 European nations. Our analyses show that immigrants in Europe are significantly more likely than natives to hold educational qualifications above those n…
Happy Dystopians
Fears of mass culture generating visions of rule not by fear, but by the narcotics of conformity and abolition of privacy, in the fiction of Huxley and Eggers—‘total sociability’ resistable only by figures of the doomed individual. The fading even of high culture as notional refuge in the passage beyond the Brave New World
Cultural Persistence and Labor Force Participation among Partnered Second-Generation Women in the United States
Women who migrate to the United States often face structural and cultural obstacles when joining the workforce. The US-born daughters of these women show considerable upward mobility, yet recent scholarship finds substantial variation in the employment of second-generation women by parental country of origin. This study assesses whether gender traditionalism in the parental country of origin has a persistent effect on the labor force participatio…
Parental Origins, Mixed Unions, and the Labor Supply of Second-Generation Women in the United States
This study examines the joint impact of parental origins and partner choice on the employment behavior of second-generation women in the United States. We find that endogamy (choosing a first- or second-generation partner from the same national-origin group) is associated with lower labor supply among second-generation women, net of the effects of parental origin culture as proxied using the epidemiological approach to cultural transmission. Pare…
Female labor force participation in the US: How is immigration shaping recent trends
Parsing the Personal
Transformative programmes for literary criticism as radical ‘aesthetic education’—and the methodological and material obstacles they may encounter. Patricia McManus continues the discussion begun by Francis Mulhern, Lola Seaton and Joseph North
Atlantic Crossings
Patricia McManus on Joe Cleary, Modernism, Empire, World Literature. Close readings of the Anglophone modernist canon, capturing a world literary system caught between European decline and American ascent
Ways of Reading
Antiutopianism: An Introduction
Utopia is endangered today! Such a sentence seems redundant: utopia—the shape of the possibility that things could be better—is always in danger. But the present danger is something distinct from the dangers that historically have attended utopia. These have not gone away but, added to them, and largely superseding utopia’s other perils in our twenty-first century, is the disappearance of utopianism from the culture and politics that dominate our…
Marital Conflict and Healthy Dietary Habits Among Preschoolers: A Study of the Experience of Coupled Women in Urban Mexico
In Mexico social dynamics are changing toward less traditional arrangements. With a qualitative interview study, we explore the link between marital conflict and mothers' ability to foster healthy dietary habits. Sample consisted of 21 middle-class cohabitating mothers of preschoolers. Results suggests that marital conflict leads women to experiences of tension, ambivalence, or inaction on fostering healthy eating habits. Parents' mismatch in gen…
The correlates of childrearing marital conflict in Mexico according to urban women parenting preschoolers
Generational Dissonance or Cultural Persistence? European Immigration and the Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Beliefs
Contemporary perspectives on gender highlight the multilevel processes that maintain the gender system, from the hegemonic cultural beliefs embedded in state institutions to the gendered interactions that occur in everyday life. This study investigates immigration as a source of diversity and adaptation in the gender system. Using data on immigrant and native adolescents in the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey in Four European Countries…
Economics (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Demographic economics (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Demography (7 works) · Labour economics (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 works) · Population (6 works)