Vanessa Gash
City University London
39 Papers
205 Citations
Vanessa Gash is an academic researcher from City University London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Unemployment & Wage. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 39 publications. Previous affiliations of Vanessa Gash include Max Planck Society & Nuffield College.
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Papers
Preference or constraint? Part-time workers' transitions in Denmark, France and the United Kingdom
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether women work part-time through preference or constraint and argued that different countries provide different opportunities for preference attainment, concluding that women with family responsibilities are unlikely to have their working preferences met without national policies supportive of maternal employment.
Are fixed-term jobs bad for your health? A comparison of West-Germany and Spain
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the health effects of fixed-term contract status for men and women in West-Germany and Spain using panel data, and find that unemployed workers show positive health effects at job acquisition, and also find the positive effect to be smaller for workers who obtain a fixedterm job.
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Evaluating State Programmes: "Natural Experiments" and Propensity Scores*
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the key ideas of the Propensity Score method and illustrate its application by re-analysis of some Irish data on training courses, which is widely applied in epidemiology and related fields, focusing on the idea that matching individuals in the groups should be compared.
Wives’ Part-time Employment and Marital Stability in Great Britain, West Germany and the United States:
Lynn Prince Cooke,Vanessa Gash +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of wives' employment on marital stability across the countries of the United Kingdom, West Germany and the United States were investigated. And the results highlight the importance of the socioeconomic context in structuring the optimal employment participation of both partners.
Women Between Part-time Work and Full-time Work: The Influence of Changing Hours of Work on Happiness and Life-Satisfaction
TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured the impact of changes in working hours on life satisfaction in two countries (the UK and Germany) using the German Socioeconomic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey.