Shirley Dex

Dados Biográficos

ID192358
NOMEShirley Dex
PRENOMESShirley
SOBRENOMEDex
ASSINATURADEX S
AFILIAÇÕESKeele University
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS54
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES404
TOTAL COMO AUTOR53
TOTAL COMO EDITOR8
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1978
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2015
ÍNDICE H10

  • The Impact of Multiple Risk Factors on Young Children's Cognitive and Behavioural Development

    Open AccessRicardo Sabates, Shirley DexARTICLEChildren & Society2015

    The paper maps out 10 risk factors measuring deficits in parent–child interaction, family–child interaction and the home environment. The prevalence of risk factor combinations is quantified using the UK Millennium Cohort Study data. In 2001, 28 per cent of families with young children were facing two or more risk factors at age 9–10 months old. Each combination of multiple risk factors accounted for a very small proportion of all MCS families. S…

  • Gendered Lives

    Jacqueline L Scott, Jacqueline Scott et al.BOOKGendered Lives2012

    "This meticulous book examines how gender inequalities in contemporary societies are changing and how further changes towards greater gender equality might be achieved. The focus of the book is on inequalities in production and reproductive activities, as played out over time and in specific contexts. It examines the different forms that gendered lives take in the household and the workplace, and explores how gender equalities may be promoted in …

  • Children of the 21st century

    Kirstine Hansen, Heather Joshi et al.BOOKChildren of the 21st century…2010

  • Children of the 21st century (Volume 2)

    Kirstine Hansen, Heather Joshi et al.BOOKChildren of the 21st century…2010

    This book documents the first five years of life of the children of the influential Millennium Cohort Study, looking at the children's lives and development as they begin formal education and the implications for family policy, and service planning in health and social services.

  • Children of the 21st century (Volume 2)

    Kirstine Hansen, Heather Joshi et al.BOOKChildren of the 21st century…2010

  • Can State Policies Produce Equality in Housework?

    Open AccessShirley DexCHAPTERDividing the domestic2010

  • Children of the 21st century

    Kirstine Hansen, Kirstein Hansen et al.BOOKChildren of the 21st Century2010

    This book documents the first five years of life of the children of the influential Millennium Cohort Study, which is tracking almost 19,000 babies born in 2000 and 2001 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This book is the second in a series of books which will report on the findings from the data and follows on from Children of the 21st century: From birth to nine months (The Policy Press, 2005). It takes an extended look at the ch…

  • Bad Start

    E Bukodi, Shirley Dex et al.ARTICLEEuropean Sociological Review2010Citada por: 10Referências: 29

    This article aims to examine gender and cohort differences in life-course occupational mobility in Britain and in particular the strength of the effects of career entry on subsequent upward or downward mobility. Does a ‘bad start’ in working life typically result in being trapped in the bottom tier of the occupational hierarchy or can it represent a stepping-stone towards more rewarding positions? Are there any gender differences in the effects o…

  • Women and Employment

    Jacqueline Lillian Scott, Jacqueline Scott et al.BOOKWomen and Employment2009

  • Reply to Ken Smith's reply

    Open AccessJane Elliott, Shirley DexARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology2009Referências: 2

  • A comment on 'Operationalizing Max Weber's probability concept of class situation

    Open AccessJane Elliott, Shirley DexARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology2009Citada por: 1Referências: 6

  • Women and Employment

    Jacqueline Scott, Shirley Dex et al.BOOKWomen and Employment2008

  • Gender differences in occupational wage mobility in the 1958 cohort

    Open AccessShirley Dex, Kelly Ward et al.ARTICLEWork Employment and Society2008Citada por: 10Referências: 16

    This article examines the wage growth of British men and women between the ages of 33 and 42 who were employed full time at both of these ages using the 1958 National Child and Development Study. Wage growth is examined in the differences of the log of hourly wage rates reported at the 33 and 42 year old interviews of this cohort study. Men were found to have higher wage growth rewards than women when in higher occupations and be more likely than…

  • Children of the 21st century

    Shirley Dex, Heather JoshiBOOKChildren of the 21st Century2005

  • Children of the 21st Century

    Shirley Dex, Heather JoshiBOOKChildren of the 21st Century2005

    There have been major shifts in the framework of social policy and welfare across Europe. Adopting a multi-level, comparative and interdisciplinary approach, this book develops a critical analysis of policy change and welfare reform in Europe.

  • Children of the 21st century

    Shirley Dex, Heather JoshiBOOKChildren of the 21st Century2005

  • Children of the 21st century

    Open AccessShirley Dex, Heather JoshiBOOKChildren of the 21st Century2005

  • Measuring work-life balance and its covariates

    Open AccessShirley Dex, Sue BondARTICLEWork Employment and Society2005Citada por: 17

  • Freelance Workers and Contract Uncertainty

    Open AccessShirley Dex, J Willis et al.ARTICLEWork Employment and Society2000Citada por: 72Referências: 3

    Changes in the competitive and regulative conditions of British television over the 1980s and 1990s make for an environment of increased uncertainty for those who work in television. Broadcasting legislation, increased competition and technological advances have changed the working practices of the UK's 28,000 production workforce. The introduction of a 25 per cent quota of independent productions on all terrestrial channels, the implementation o…

  • The Characteristics of the Low Paid

    Open AccessShirley Dex, Paul Robson et al.ARTICLEWork Employment and Society1999Citada por: 7Referências: 9

    This paper examines whether the supply side characteristics of the low paid are associated with the labour market wage setting institutions of five countries; Britain, Luxembourg, Germany, Spain and the USA, using the harmonised PAnel COmparability (PACO) data based on household panel studies and the Spanish European Household Panel survey. The age, education, marital status, children, lone parent status, household type, employment status of spou…

  • The Reliability of Retrospective Unemployment History Data

    Open AccessShirley Dex, Andrew Mcculloch et al.ARTICLEWork Employment and Society1998Citada por: 23Referências: 9

    This paper sets out to examine the reliability of data on men's and women's past experiences of unemployment spells which has been gained by asking individuals to recall these spells and the dates of their occurrence. Surveys seek individuals' history data either to gain information about the initial conditions of respondents, or to examine these histories in their own right. It is much less expensive to collect data about individuals' histories …

  • Flexible Employment

    Open AccessShirley Dex, Andrew MccullochBOOKFlexible Employment1997

    Many employed men and women now hold self-employed, part-time or temporary jobs. Such jobs have been increasing since the 1970s. This book examines the implications for employers, individuals and hous

  • A widening gulf among Britain's mothers

    Shirley DexARTICLEOxford Review of Economic Policy1996

    It had become the norm for mothers in post-war Britain to interrupt employment after child-bearing. The trend to increased female labour-force participation involves a shortening of this break, but continuous careers are becoming more common. Many of the growing disparities. The last two decades qualifications are now maintaining full-time employment in high-level occupations when they become mothers. They take advantage of maternity leave and pa…

  • Employment after childbearing and women's subsequent labour force participation

    Open AccessHeather Joshil, Susan Macran et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population Economics1996Citada por: 21Referências: 3

  • Women's labor force transitions in connection with childbirth

    Open AccessSiv Gustafsson, Siv S Gustafsson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population Economics1996Citada por: 32Referências: 5