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| Life After Welfare: Reform and the Persistence of Poverty By Laura Lein and Deanna T. Schexnayder; with Karen Manges Douglas and Daniel G. Schroeder |  |
XXVI IUSSP International Population Conference Call for Abstracts The XXVI IUSSP International Population Conference website is now open and ready to accept submissions for papers and posters. The deadline to submit short and long abstracts is September 15, 2008. The Conference will take place in Marrakech, Morocco from September 26 to October 2, 2009. Please check the Conference website regularly for more information. |  |
SDA Annual Meeting Call for Abstracts The Southern Demographic Association (SDA) is soliciting abstracts for its annual meeting, to be held this October 30 through November 1, 2008 at the Hyatt Regency in Greenville, South Carolina. SDA is also soliciting suggestions for topics for panels and poster sessions. |  |
The Health of Aging Hispanics: The Mexican-Origin Population After years of research, researchers have a grasp of some of the complex issues and social and behavioral patterns surrounding health that impact older Hispanic people, especially those of Mexican ancestry. |  |
Recent News
| Does Globalization Benefit Women in Developing Countries? Percent Female Workers in Export and Non-export Manufacturing Firms in Mexico, 2001 Sociological research has been generally critical of the effects of economic globalization on developing countries. However, greater worldwide economic integration may have created new employment opportunities for women. In a recent article Andrés Villarreal and Wei-hsin Yu examine the effect of foreign investment and export production on gender inequality in Mexico, a country that epitomizes the global shift to an open-market economic strategy. Using data from nationally representative surveys of manufacturing firms between 1992 and 2001, they find that foreign and export-oriented firms employ significantly more women at every occupational level than do nationally-owned firms producing goods for sale in the domestic market. The greater employment of women in foreign and export firms cannot be explained by these firms’ higher demand for workers of lower skill levels, their size, capital intensity, production technology, wage level, use of temporary workers, or industry. Using managers’ responses to survey questions regarding gender preferences in hiring, Villarreal and Yu find that managers in foreign-owned export firms have a preference for hiring women that cannot be explained by firm-level factors. This preference may account for the observed differences in female employment. Finally, using firms’ payroll information to analyze the gender wage gap in manufacturing firms, they find that foreign-owned export firms discriminate against women less in terms of wages. |  |
| PRC Researchers Featured on UT Home Page "’Til Death Do Us Part? Researchers diagnose health consequences of marriage, divorce." PRC Faculty Research Associates Debra Umberson, Mark Hayward, Kelly Raley, and Norval Glenn are featured. |
| Volunteers: A Social Profile Marc A. Musick and John Wilson "A much needed book for both scholars and practitioners. It covers a wide range of topics dealing with volunteering. . . . A major contribution." —Virginia Hodgkinson, Center for Voluntary Organizations and Service Making use of a broad range of survey information to offer a detailed portrait of the volunteer in America, Volunteers provides an important resource for everyone who works with volunteers or is interested in their role in contemporary society. Mark A. Musick and John Wilson address issues of volunteer motivation by focusing on individuals' subjective states, their available resources, and the influence of gender and race. |  |