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1 | Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Dispelling the pipeline myth: gender, family formation, and alternative trajectories in the academic life course | Academic careers have traditionally been conceptualized as pipelines, through which young scholars move continuously from graduate school to tenure-track positions. This understanding often fails to capture the experiences of female Ph.D. recipients, who take ladder-rank assistant professorships at ... | Careers, academic; Tenure; Teaching, higher education; Employment | 2006-07-20 | |
2 | Family structure and adolescent labor market participation: examining the motives for and effects of at-risk students' work for pay during high school | In this paper, I argue that focusing on only one type of fragile family structure- generally single-parent families, without distinguishing how these families were formed-obscures important processes and mechanisms among different types of families. I focus on a specific adolescent risk behavior,... | Single parents; Adolescence; Parenting; Employment | 2003-10-03 |