The dynamics of full-time and part-time female labour force participation in Great Britain

This paper examines empirically the dynamics of female labour force participation in Great Britain stressing the distinction between full-time and part-time employment. A three-state employment model is assumed, the states being in full-time work, in part-time work and not employed. The six transitions suggested by this state space represent exits from employment, entries into employment and employment changes (or transitions directly from full-time work to part-time work andvice versa). In order to quantify the impact that selected socio-economic factors have on the intensity of these transitions, hazard regression analysis is used. The data are from the1980 Women and Employment Survey. The analysis indicates that full-time and part-time employmènt are states exhibiting major differences beyond the obvious difference in the number of hours worked.Cet article envisage les dynamiques de l'activité professionnelle féminine en insistant sur la distinction entre emploi à plein temps et emploi à temps partiel. Un modèle faisant intervenir trois états (travail à plein temps, travail à temps partiel et inactivité) est proposé. Les six transitions possibles entre ces trois états sont les départs de l'emploi, les entrées dans l'emploi et les changements dans le statut de l'emploi (ou transitions entre emploi à plein temps et emploi à temps partiel et vice versa). En vue de quantifier le rôle de certains facteurs socio-économiques sur l'intensité de ces transitions, un modèle de régression à risques proportionnels est utilisé. Les données sont issues de l'enquête de 1980 sur les femmés et l'emploi. L'analyse permet de conclure que des différences fondamentales existent entre l'emploi à plein temps et l'emploi à temps partiel, au-delà des différences évidentes du nombre d'heures de travail.     

Cataloging Education and Cataloging Futures: An Interview with Allyson Carlyle

In February 2011 Margaret Dull interviewed Allyson Carlyle, associate professor and chair of the PhD program at the iSchool, University of Washington (Seattle, Washington). Carlyle shares her views on the current challenges faced by catalogers and cataloging educators. Carlyle also discusses the vital role that cataloging plays in today's library and information science curriculum, as well as the future role of the professional cataloger.     

Child Abuse and Neglect inChina: What the Papers Say

In order to gain an insight into attitudes towards child abuse in China, a review of a number of newspapers for a period of 3 months was carried out. There was a dearth of relevant stories in national papers, but more in the local type of newspaper read by the majority of Chinese. Overall there were few reports relating to child abuse, especially in the intrafamilial setting. Of particular note is the number of reports of neglect of children following divorce. Violence towards students by teachers also features prominently. But by far the most reported issue is the damaging effect on children resulting from pressures for good academic performance in a highly competitive society.     

IDENTIFYING THE EFFECTS OF MONETARY POLICY SHOCKS ON EXCHANGE RATES USING HIGH FREQUENCY DATA

This paper proposes a new approach to identifying the effects of monetary policy shocks in an international vector autoregression. Using high‐frequency data on the prices of Fed Funds futures contracts, we measure the impact of the surprise component of the FOMC‐day Federal Reserve policy decision on financial variables, such as the exchange rate and the foreign interest rate. We show how this information can be used to achieve identification without having to make the usual strong assumption of a recursive ordering. (JEL: C32, E52, F30)