Dissertations / Theses: 'Wages – Effect of marriage on'

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De, Melo Patricia Sofia Coelho. "Estimatin the effect of agglomeration economies on wages." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520937.

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Hotaling, Mary. "Effect of clinical laboratory practitioner licensing on wages." ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/860.

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Professional licensing directly affects about 29% of U.S. workers and is considered a primary means to establish and maintain health care practitioner competence. Clinical laboratory practitioner licensing was largely ignored in the literature with only 2 studies 30 years apart that provided conflicting conclusions regarding wage effects. This research provided the first study of clinical laboratory practitioner licensing effects on wages after controlling for human capital and individual characteristics wage determinants. This nonexperimental correlational study extended the literature on licensing effects on wages, including women's wages and professions not uniformly licensed across 50 states. The theoretical foundation relied on the human capital wage model that wages vary according to human capital investment, namely education and experience. Census 2000 5% Public Use Microdata Sample provided wages and control variable data, including educational attainment, experience, gender, marital status, and children. Using hierarchical regression analysis, this study found clinical laboratory practitioner wages were significantly higher (5.8%) in licensing states compared to nonlicensing states after controlling for these human capital and individual characteristics, R 2change (p < .001). Female clinical laboratory practitioners working in licensing states earned significantly higher wages (5.0%) compared to those in nonlicensing states, R 2change (p < .01). This study has potential for positive social change in clinical laboratory practitioner licensing policy development, implementation, and analysis by providing urgently needed empirical wage data for legislators to make informed decisions on costs to adopting such legislation.

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Zhang, Xu. "Fecundity and husband-wife age and education gaps at first marriage." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2009.

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Mamun, Arif Al. "Essays in economics of the family : incorporating cohabitation /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7500.

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Milinkovich, Steven M. "Analysis of perceived financial conditions of US Navy enlisted personnel." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2006. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/06Mar%5FMilinkovich.pdf.

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Grek, Jenny. "The effect of smoking and drinking on wages in Sweden." Thesis, University of Skövde, School of Technology and Society, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-89.

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The aim of this thesis is to study the effect of smoking and drinking on wages in Sweden. The data used in this study is the Swedish Level-of-living survey (LNU) from 1991. A multinomial logit model and the marginal effects from the estimated model are used to study the effect of smoking and drinking on wages in Sweden. The empirical results conclude that medium drinking increases the probability of having a high income, i.e. there is a positive significant relationship between medium drinking and wages in Sweden. Also concluded from the empirical results is that there is not a significant relationship between smoking and wages in Sweden.

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Schroeder, Daniel Gene. "Self-esteem moderates the effect of wage trends on employment tenure." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3035977.

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Pioli, Mark. "The Effect of Cohabitation on Egalitarianism in Marriage." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26083.

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This study examines the relationship between premarital cohabitation and egalitarianism in marriage using data from the two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households (N = 13,017). Multiple regression and path analysis techniques are used to test this effect. Cohabitation is viewed as an experience in which patterns of behavior and attitudes are formed that influence later marriages. It is hypothesized that this experience leads to a more egalitarian household division of labor and less traditional gender ideologies among married individuals who cohabited premaritally, as compared to those that did not. Path models test the extent to which cohabitation’s effect on later marriages is explained by the household division of labor and gender ideology at time-1. Based on attitude-behavior research, 1) a higher correlation between household division of labor and gender ideology is expected for premarital cohabitors than for non-cohabitors; and 2) a measure of attitude toward sharing housework should better predict household division of labor than does general gender ideology. The analysis showed that premarital cohabitation does have a positive effect on household division of labor and gender ideology in marriage through indirect (and possibly direct) paths. The attitudinal and behavioral measures were not more closely linked for cohabitors, and the specific attitude-toward-thebehavior measure was not a better predictor of household division of labor than general gender ideology. I conclude from this analysis that the experience of cohabitation leads to more egalitarian marriages and that this is largely due to household labor during cohabitation.
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Li, Xin Ran. "The effect of international trade on wages : a case study of China." Thesis, University of Macau, 2012. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2553449.

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Hall, Edwin Andrew. "The effect of professional associations on wages and employment in the UK." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312443.

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Sanderson, Zachary W. "Burning a Hole in Your Pocket: the Effect of Smoking Cigarettes on Wages." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1543848326507365.

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Lemos, Sara Eloisa Vilmar da Silva. "The effect of the minimum wage on wages, employment and prices in Brazil." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407159.

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Firmin, Daniel. "Error iuris concerning sacramental dignity (Canon 1099) and its effect on the marriage between two Southern Baptists." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p029-0707.

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Corrales, Alejandra, and Jorge Vega. "Effect of immigration on Sweden natives' wages : The post-secondary and post-graduate case." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Nationalekonomi, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-92563.

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Abraham, Joseph C. "The effect of reverential fear on the consent in an arranged marriage with a special reference to the practice in Kerala, India /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Onaran, Özlem. "The effect of foreign affiliate employment on wages, employment, and the wage share in Austria." Inst. für Volkswirtschaftstheorie und -politik, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2008. http://epub.wu.ac.at/314/1/document.pdf.

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This paper estimates the effects of outward Foreign Direct Investment (employment in the affiliates abroad) on employment, wages, and the wage share in Austria using panel data for the period of 1996-2005. There is evidence of significant negative effects of FDI on both employment and wages, and consequently on the wage share. The results are not limited to workers in low skilled sectors or blue collar workers. The negative employment effect is primarily due to the rise in the employment in the foreign affiliates in Eastern Euope. The negative wage effects are originating from affiliate employment in both the East and the developed countries in industry, but no effect is found in the total economy. (author´s abstract)
Series: Department of Economics Working Paper Series

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Summerour, Alice Rebecca. "An investigation of the differential effect of employment risk and price risk on wage rates and compensation." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/28555.

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Wexler, Steven M. "Interaction and comparison between a marriage enrichment seminar and small group dynamics as they effect couples' marital satisfaction." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Wilson, Hugh David Economics Australian School of Business UNSW. "The Firm Size Effect: An Application of Hierarchy Theories." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Economics, 2000. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/32642.

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In this thesis the positive relationship between firm size and wages is investigated through the application of hierarchy theories. Many different explanations have been proposed for this relationship, but have met only limited success at best. The strongest finding to date is that unobserved ability is a significant factor. The question of interest here is ???why do wages increase as the size firm increases???? Hierarchy theories take a different approach towards the analysis of firms in comparison to the alternate theories which have dominated previous investigations. As a result of their focus on the organisational relationships within a firm???s internal structure, hierarchy theories offer certain insights to the size-wage relationship which to date have been unnoticed. An empirical investigation into the size-wage differential incorporating structural considerations into an augmented wage equation offers strong support for the propositions of hierarchy theories. I find that half of the firm size effect for workers can be explained by controlling for some aspects of management structure, and that span of control has a discontinuous effect on wages. These results are completely consistent with the existing findings on unobserved ability and have the added attraction of providing economic as well as statistical explanatory power.

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North, David. "The 'forgotten workforce' : a study into the effects of working part-time unsocial hours upon secondary wage earners within hospitality and retail." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2006. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/336276/.

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The expansion of trading hours especially within hospitality and retail has allowed a previously restricted segment of the nation's workforce an enhanced opportunity to participate in employment outside traditional working hours. Focusing upon mothers who adopt employment outside of the conventional working day, this study examines the consequences of accepting such employment and considers what influence this type of employment has upon the individual, their partner and their family. Despite the growing numbers, this vulnerable sector of the workforce often fails to attract a high priority of public or academic attention with the majority of policy initiatives (both company and government) being directed toward full-time employees. To document the effect of working part-time unsocial hours this research undertook interviews with eighty six individuals from a national supermarket chain and a restaurant group with a further twenty three follow-up interviews one year later. The data gathered documents the reality of paritime unsocial hours working (often involving emotional labour ) and examines the effect this form of employment has upon work performance. The analysis continues with an assessment of the effect such working has upon the lives of the individuals concerned and discusses the importance of partner support for coping with the problems associated with part-time unsocial hours work. The study concludes with practical suggestions that employers can adopt to improve welfare at work. It recommends government initiatives together with legislative changes designed to protect this vulnerable sector of the workforce from exploitation.

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Aragón, Aragón María José Monserrat. "Essays on Economics of Obesity." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Alicante, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10045/34171.

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Lippincott, Barbara. "The effect of restructuring on earnings expectations and firm value : an empirical investigation /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9924900.

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Varland, J. D. "The effect of men's groups on marital satisfaction." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Thomas, Megan. "The effect of obesity or disability on the wages on employees in employer-sponsored health insurance plans." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2009. http://worldcat.org/oclc/444610565/viewonline.

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Jones, Karen S. "The effect of biblical teaching on marital conflict among African American couples." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), access this title online, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.074-0074.

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Sullivan, Margaret L. "The possible effect of borderline personality disorder on matrimonial consent." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.

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Yamanaka, Jackie E. "The Effect of Oral Contraceptives on Women's Labor Force Participation Rates." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/270.

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The first oral contraceptive was introduced in the United States during the 1960s, and, subsequently, there was an increase in women’s labor force participation rates. Although the economic role of oral contraceptives is still highly debated by scholars, previous studies have found that the pill had a statistically significant impact on women’s labor force participation rates. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women, I will analyze how hours worked, hourly wages, weekly earnings and occupations for women were affected by oral contraceptives. By controlling for various governing statutes that affected the availability of the use and distribution of oral contraceptives in different states, I am able to provide evidence highlighting the extent of the pill’s significance. I find that early legal access (ELA) to oral contraceptives that resulted from residential states legalizing abortion before others positively and significantly affects women’s hours worked, hourly wages, weekly earnings and whether or not women entered into professional occupations.

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Shoenberger, Nicole Ann. "The Effect of Marriage and Employment on Criminal Desistance: The Influence of Race." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1339560808.

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Yoshida, Yoko 1974. "Explaining the earnings disadvantage of visible minority immigrants in Canada." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=115646.

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This dissertation is manuscript-based. It contains an introduction, a literature review, a conclusion along with the four research papers that constitute its core. The four substantive papers reexamine the sources of earnings differences by race and immigration status in Canada. I address two major methodological issues in the relevant literature: the measurement of experience and the modeling of the relations between the factors known to influence earnings. Data from Statistics Canada's Workplace and Employee Survey (WES) was analyzed. The first two papers examine biases in the estimates of wage disparities due to error in the measurement of experience. They do so using two conventional estimation techniques: ordinary least squares (OLS) with dummy variables, and the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition. The third and fourth papers explore deficiencies in OLS-based modeling techniques. The third paper does so by separately analyzing the relationships between racial and immigrant group statuses and access to job-related training, and then the relationship between statuses and training, on one hand, and earnings on the other. The final paper uses structural equation modeling to further examine the relationship between group status and earnings, this time explicitly incorporating the mediating effects of job types, and job-related training. The papers reveal that inadequate measurement of work experience results in overestimates of the wage disadvantage of visible minority immigrants. Furthermore, some of the wage disadvantage of this group stems from limited access to job-related training.

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Dennison, Renee Peltz. "The Effect of Family of Origin on Early Marriage Outcomes: A Mixed Method Approach." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195645.

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The present study examined the effect of family of origin characteristics on current marital satisfaction, within a sample of newlywed couples, using dyadic and mixed methods approaches to conceptualization, data collection, and data analysis.The data used to investigate this process--sometimes called intergenerational transmission--was collected in two phases. First, quantitative data in the form of close-ended questions was collected separately from each member of 190 newlywed couples via hard-copy questionnaires. These questionnaires included measures of family of origin characteristics (e.g., interparental conflict), current marital processes (e.g., conflict resolution style), and marital outcomes (e.g., marital satisfaction). Second, in-depth and open-ended questions were asked of 18 couples in semi-structured couple interviews. The 18 couples who were interviewed in phase two of the data collection represent a purposive sub-sample of the original 190 couples from phase one of data collection.Results of structural equation modeling of a conceptual model based on the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM; Cook & Kenny, 2005) indicated that the family or origin characteristics measured predicted a decrease in marital satisfaction, especially for wives. In addition, mixed evidence was found for the potential meditational role of conflict resolution style. Results of thematic coding of the interview data revealed that: a) families of origin serve as marriage role models in complex and multifaceted ways; b) there are other important models of marriage, aside from families of origin, that influence marital outcomes; c) it is likely that couples use a combination of different marriage role models to form their ideas of marriage (and therefore their marital outcomes); and d) it is possible that in some cases families of origin do not provide a marriage role model at all.Finally, results of a configural comparative analysis utilizing both the quantitative and qualitative data revealed that couples negotiate the pathway from their families of origin to their own marriages in diverse ways. Three distinct pathways were identified, including a "modeling" pathway, a "modified modeling" pathway, and a "compensation" pathway. Interpretations and implications of these findings are discussed. In addition, future directions for research in this area are suggested.

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Thorne, David R. "Father absence and its effect on young adults' choices of cohabitation, marriage and divorce." Thesis, Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1449.

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Nabers, Kent E. "The Effect of Biofeedback Training on Marital Communication and Physiological Arousal." DigitalCommons@USU, 1998. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/6136.

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It is well documented that the communication patterns of distressed couples are characterized by more negative and fewer positive behaviors. It has also been postulated that there is an association between physiological arousal and negative behaviors. According to this theory, as individuals become increasingly aroused, the number of negative behaviors also increases. This study explored the relationship between physiological arousal and marital communication. The three couples participating in the study received intensive biofeedback training with the hypothesis that an ability to control physiological arousal would result in improved marital communications. The Rapid Couples Interaction Scoring System was employed as a measurement of overt behavior, and physiological arousal was measured by electromyographic levels. The findings of this study suggest that, for some, biofeedback training is an effective intervention to improve marital communications.

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Whitehead, Andrew L. Froese Paul. "Sacred rites and civil rights religion's effect on attitudes toward same-sex unions and the perceived cause of homosexuality /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5338.

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Scheckel, Jill R. "An attributional alliance : effect of therapist empathy in marital therapy." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1019476.

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Attribution theory provides a rich foundation of literature addressing how individuals infer causes of behavior. While a great deal of marital therapists have utilized attribution theory to examine dysfunctional patterns of couples, no research to date has examined therapists' own attributions. The purpose of this study was to examine therapists' causal explanations, or attributions, for the difficulties of a marital dyad.One hundred thirty masters and doctoral level students completed the Causal Dimension Scale after viewing a videotape of a couple in an initial interview for therapy. Each subject was randomly assigned to one of three conditions when viewing the videotape: (1) Empathy induction for the wife; (2) empathy induction for the husband; or (3) a control group.Results indicated that empathy instructions did not significantly affect subjects' causal explanations for the couple's problems. Additionally, there was no relationship between empathy-induction and the subsequent prognosis for each spouse. While empathy instructions did not significantly affect therapist prognoses, there were gender differences among therapists and their prognoses. In general, female observers rated the prognosis for therapeutic gain for both the husband and wife higher than did male observers; however, the only significant difference between male and female observers was on the prognosis for therapeutic gain for the husband. Finally, another influential variable affecting therapist prognosis was the video scenario. The prognosis for therapeutic gain for both the husband and the wife was judged to be higher when he/she was the "pursuer" who was upset with the other spouse for spending too much time at work with an opposite-sex co-worker. Implications of this study for marital therapists were discussed. Additionally, limitations as well as suggestions for further research in this area were noted and discussed. Further investigation is needed to examine possible therapist biases in working with couples.
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Charkasova, Aynur. "THE EFFECT OF IMMIGRATION STATUS ON EARNINGS OF SKILLED IMMIGRANTS IN STEM OCCUPATIONS." OpenSIUC, 2021. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1924.

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The aim of this study was two-fold: firstly, it attempted to focus on the earnings of foreign-born STEM professionals in the U.S. workforce to examine whether this population was at an earning disadvantage compared to the U.S. citizens. Secondly, it aimed to investigate whether legal status acquisition (from temporary work visas to permanent residency) enhanced the earnings of foreign-born STEM professionals in the U.S. workforce. This study utilized a mixed-methods (QUAN/QUAL) research design. ANCOVA (Analysis of Covariance) was used to test the hypothesis in order to determine any statistically significant differences between the group means. Secondary data from the National Survey of College Graduates (NSCG) was utilized for this study. The results of the ANCOVA test showed that temporary worker visa holders were not at earning advantage/disadvantage compared to the U.S. citizens, and there was no statistical evidence that legal status acquisition enhanced the salaries of the foreign-born STEM professionals in the U.S. workforce. The interviews indicated that foreign-born STEM professionals (temporary worker visa holders, LPRs, and naturalized U.S. citizens) were not at earning disadvantage compared to their U.S.-born counterparts. Although the legal status change did not enhance the salaries of the skilled immigrants, it did improve job mobility and overall flexibility.

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Jones, Karen S. "The effect of biblical teaching on marital distress among African American couples." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p074-0074.

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Migdat, Tiffany Ann. "The Effect of Marital Therapy on Physical Affection." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6418.

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Research indicates that marital satisfaction is associated with levels of physical affection between partners. This is important because there is evidence of physical and mental health benefits of physical affection. Although past research has shown that marital therapy increases levels of marital and sexual satisfaction, the association between marital therapy and physical affection has not been explored. This study used a treatment group and a control group of 108 married couples to assess the relationship between marital therapy and physical affection over a course of 12 weeks. Using structural equation modeling and an actor partner analytic model, results indicated that marital therapy was significantly associated with increases in physical affection for husbands, but not wives.

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Torres, Faith Rebekah. "The Moderating Effect of Adult Attachment Style in the Intergenerational Transmission of Aggression in Marriage." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2009. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd3217.pdf.

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Gridley, Barry. "The effect of a 10 week seminar on shame in relationships on marital satisfaction for Christian couples." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Beienburg, Matthew D. "Tie the Knot or You Tighten the Noose? The Current Effect of Pre-marital Cohabitation on Marriage Survival Rates." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/120.

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Pre-marital cohabitation has become a mainstream practice among couples in the United States, yet initial empirical evidence demonstrated significant correlations between cohabitation and subsequent marital instability. Later studies disputed a causal relation and have attempted to show a weakened connection over time, but have themselves suffered from the use of exclusively older and/or unreliable data. This paper uses figures from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1997-08) and the National Survey of Family Growth (2006-08) to provide an updated analysis of cohabitation’s effect on marriage over the past decade. Using proportional hazard and competing risk models, this paper confirms a now minimal impact of cohabitation on marriage stability, with possible exceptions for serial cohabitation and cohabitation begun prior to engagement. Moreover, this study finds that cohabitation overwhelmingly remains a step toward, rather than serious substitute for, marriage.

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Bothma, Gustav. "Studying the effect of the current remuneration practices in Route Management (Pty) Ltd: Cape Town." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/95654.

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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.
Many different definitions of human resources as a field of practice exist but few would disagree with the fact that a company’s remuneration practices play a crucially important role in the development and management of a productive workforce. Being such a crucial part of the employment relationship, a company’s remuneration strategy has the potential power to influence many factors contributing to employee well-being and operational success. The focus of this project has been an investigation of the current remuneration practices within Route Management (Pty) Ltd and the effect it has on employees, with specific reference to monthly paid employees at the Cape Town plant. The possibility of the current remuneration practices having a negative impact on employee satisfaction and crucial functions like skills retention have been scrutinised, and even where such concerns are not justified, the aim is to inform top management of the benefits that their current approach towards remuneration has to offer. In order to study the effect of the current remuneration practices deployed at Route Management, the research focused on employee satisfaction as a possible indicator of the impact these practices may have on employees. Employee satisfaction is a very wide construct, has many different components and has been studied widely in the literature. This complex construct along with some issues surrounding remuneration form the basis of the literature review presented in the report. A self-administered questionnaire was developed and with the size and physical location of the population in mind, a delivery and collection method was chosen to administer the questionnaires. This kind of questionnaire provided the respondents with the opportunity to complete the questions without any assistance from the researcher, ensuring that the researcher’s contribution was kept to an absolute minimum, and in doing so avoiding bias during the questionnaire data collection phase. Weights were assigned to questions in order to obtain a total employee satisfaction indicator score for each respondent, as well as two sub-indicator scores, namely a general employee satisfaction indicator and a remuneration satisfaction indicator for each respondent. Results showed that by far the majority of respondents are either satisfied or very satisfied with regards to their employment situation at Route Management with only 15 percent of respondents indicating that they are unsatisfied with remuneration practices at the company. All employees were found to be satisfied according to their general employee satisfaction and their total satisfaction indicator scores. The final analysis studied the relationship between remuneration satisfaction and general satisfaction. The results found that the company’s remuneration practices do not impact negatively on general employee satisfaction and with an average total satisfaction score of 72 percent, and 40 percent of all respondents found to be very satisfied, the company can be confident to work with a productive and motivated team at their Cape Town plant. Results showed that remuneration satisfaction does have some degree of positive impact on the level of general satisfaction which employees experience. Consequently, Route Management’s board of directors should consider these results as a positive indicator for their future decisions regarding remuneration practices, but should also consider the advantages of gaining more information from this type of research. It is therefore advised that this or similar studies should be rolled out and applied to the entire organisation.

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Badenhorst, Marizanne. "The relationship between actual pay and pay satisfaction : the moderating effect of expectancy theory dimensions." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20410.

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Thesis (MComm)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Pay satisfaction is an essential aim in any company’s reward system, since various studies indicate that it affects employee job performance. With limited resources and restricted capacity to increase pay, firms require a better understanding of how employee pay satisfaction develops and how employee work-related behaviour is affected by pay satisfaction. The purpose of this study was threefold: First, to investigate the relationship between actual pay and pay satisfaction, and second, to explore the effect that pay motivation dimensions derived from expectancy theory (Vroom, 1964) — pay valence and pay instrumentality — have on this relationship. Lastly, the study aimed to explore the relative effects of these objective (pay) and subjective (pay perceptions) variables on employee job performance. Self-report survey data of managerial employees (N = 177) from a South African retail organisation were collected, along with supervisor ratings of job performance and objective actual pay data, for each participant. The Pay Satisfaction Questionnaire (PSQ) and a selfdeveloped Pay Valence and Instrumentality Questionnaire (PVIQ) were administered through an intranet-based survey. Data were analysed with a variety of statistical techniques. Descriptive statistics were used to assess underlying assumptions of the multivariate analysis techniques used to analyse the research data, and to describe the central tendency and dispersion of study variables. Pearson product moment correlations were calculated to assess bivariate relationships. Standard multiple regression analysis was utilised to assess the joint relationship between IVs and DVs, and relative weights analysis (RWA) to assess the relative importance of IVs within respective regression models. Moderated multiple regression (MMR) analysis was used to examine possible moderator effects. To determine whether mediating (indirect) influences were present, normal theory and bootstrap estimates of indirect effects were obtained. In this research, selected antecedents and consequences of pay satisfaction were investigated. Regarding antecedents of pay satisfaction, the results suggested that actual pay had a small but significant effect on pay satisfaction, but not pay valence, nor pay instrumentality. Pay motivation perceptions (pay valence and pay instrumentality) neither moderated, nor mediated, the relationship between pay and pay satisfaction. The consequences of pay perceptions, in conjunction with actual pay, were also assessed. Pay satisfaction had no statistically significant relationship with job performance (p > .05), although actual pay had a moderate association with job performance. Although pay perceptions slightly incremented the validity of predicting performance from actual pay itself, this increment was not statistically significant (p < .05). In summary, the present research highlights the central role of actual pay in influencing pay satisfaction and job performance, but questions still remain about the way in which performance results from pay, since pay satisfaction did not mediate this relationship. The implications for future research are discussed and recommendations for research are made.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Vergoedingstevredenheid is noodsaaklike doelwit in maatskappy se vergoedingsisteem en verskeie studies toon hoe dit werksprestasie van werknemers positief beïnvloed. Aangesien maatskappye oor beperkte hulpbronne en kapasiteit beskik om vergoeding te verhoog, word ‘n beter begrip vereis oor hoe werknemers se gedrag deur vergoedingstevredenheid beïnvloed word. Die doel van hierdie studie was drieledig: eerstens, om die verband tussen werklike vergoeding en vergoedingstevredenheid te ondersoek, en tweedens, om die effek van vergoedingsmotiveringsdimensies — afgelei van die verwagtingsteorie (Vroom, 1964), naamlik betalingsvalensie en betalingsinstrumentaliteit — en die verband te ondersoek. Derdens, om die invloed van hierdie objektiewe (vergoeding) en subjektiewe (vergoedingspersepsies) veranderlikes op werknemerprestasie te ondersoek. Die data is in Suid-Afrikaanse kleinhandelsonderneming versamel. Die volgende inligting is bekom van deelnemers: selfrapporteringsdata vanaf werknemers in bestuursposte (N = 177), werksprestasiebeoordelings deur hul onderskeie toesighouers, asook objektiewe werklike vergoedingsvlakke vir elke respondent. Die Vergoedingstevredenheidsvraelys en die selfontwikkelde Betalingsvalensie- en Instrumentaliteitvraelys is deur intranetopname geadministreer. Die data is met behulp van verskeidenheid statistiese tegnieke ontleed. Beskrywende statistiek is gebruik om die onderliggende aannames van meerveranderlike analise in die navorsingsdata te evalueer, en die sentrale neiging en verspreiding van die studieveranderlikes te beskryf. Pearsonprodukkorrelasiestatistiek is gebruik om die beduidendheid van die hipoteses rakende tweeveranderlike korrelasies te evalueer. Standaard meervoudige regressie-analise is gebruik om die gesamentlike verwantskap tussen onafhanklike veranderlikes en afhanklike veranderlikes te evalueer. Relatiewegewigte-analise (RWA) was gebruik om die relatiewe belangrikheid van onafhanklike veranderlikes, binne die onderskeie modelle, te evalueer. Gemodereerde meervoudige regressie-(MMR)-analise is gebruik om die moontlike bemiddelende uitwerking van veranderlikes te ondersoek. Normale teorie en “bootstrap”-raming van die indirekte invloede van veranderlikes is verkry om die moontlike mediëring van verbandskappe te evalueer. In hierdie navorsing is die voorafgaande faktore, sowel as die gevolge van, vergoedingstevredenheid ondersoek. Wat die oorsake van vergoedingstevredenheid betref, het die resultate aangedui dat werklike vergoedingsvlakke klein, maar wel statisties beduidende uitwerking het op vergoedingstevredenheid, terwyl betalingsvalensie en betalingsinstrumentaliteit geen beduidende uitwerking getoon het nie. Verder toon die resultate dat die verband tussen betaling en vergoedingstevredenheid word nie deur vergoedingsmotiveringspersepsies (betalingsvalensie en betalingsinstrumentaliteit) bemiddel of medieër nie. Die nagevolge van vergoedingspersepsies is onderling met werklike betaling ondersoek. Vergoedingstevredenheid het geen statistiese beduidende verband met werksprestasie getoon nie, tog het werklike betaling matige verband met werksprestasie getoon. Alhoewel betalingspersepsies die geldigheid van die voorspelling van werksprestasie vanaf werklike betaling inkrementeer, toon dit nie beduidende effek (p < .05) nie. Die huidige navorsing beklemtoon die sentrale rol wat werklike betaling steeds in die beïnvloeding van vergoedingstevredenheid en werksprestasie speel, hoewel die rede vir die verband tussen werklike betaling en prestasie steeds nie ten volle begryp word nie, aangesien vergoedingstevredenheid nie hierdie verband medieër nie. Beperkinge van die navorsing, asook die implikasies vir vergoedingspraktyk en toekomstige navorsing word bespreek.

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Beasley, Lucy. "Diet in transition : the effect of leaving home on the diet and nutritional status of young adults." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2005. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/5785/.

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Dietary habits change over the life-course and might be profoundly affected by changes in lifestyle. The transition from living as a dependent in the family home to independent living is a crucial stage in most young people's lives, and the initial diet and lifestyle choices adopted following leaving home may form the basis of dietary habits and health status in adulthood. Many young people leave home to pursue further education, begin employment and/or co-habit/start a family. However, some leave home involuntarily or due to family conflict, becoming homeless. The circumstances of a young person's transition into independent living are likely to have an impact on their health behaviour and dietary habits. The aim of this study was therefore to investigate the diet and lifestyles of young people living at home or independently. In particular, the diet and nutritional status of young adults at various stages of independent living (students, homeless and working young adults) was investigated. Phase 1 of the study investigated the differences in diet and health behaviour of young people living independently or in the family home (n=219). Phases 2,3 and 4 investigated the diet and nutritional status of (phase 2) students during their first year of study (n=58), (phase 3) homeless young adults residing temporarily in hostels (n=24) and (phase 4) working young adults who have lived independently for more than 4 years (n=33). The study was based in Liverpool, and volunteers were recruited largely from Merseyside, although the `snowball' recruitment technique resulted in some volunteers from Leicestershire, the Midlands, Surrey and Kent. An age range of 18-30 years was used for this study. This was in order to include both young people who had recently left home (who were likely to be at the lower end of the age range), and those who had lived independently for more than four years (who were likely to be at the higher end of the age range). The dietary habits of working young adults, who had lived independently for more than four years, were closest to recommended nutritional intakes. Students and the homeless generally consumed diets that were high in fat and sugar, and low in fibre. Alcohol intakes were high amongst male and female students and female working adults. Anthropometric measurements (height, weight, BMI and skinfolds) were comparable between students and working young adults.

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La, Hoz Alicia E. "The effect of acculturation and gender role attitudes on marital distress for Hispanic couples." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Onaran, Özlem, and Engelbert Stockhammer. "The effect of FDI and foreign trade on wages in the Central and Eastern European Countries in the post-transition era: A sectoral analysis." Inst. für Volkswirtschaftstheorie und -politik, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2006. http://epub.wu.ac.at/1450/1/document.pdf.

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The aim of this paper is to estimate the effect of FDI and trade openness on wages in the CEECs in the post-transition era. We utilize a cross-country sector-specific eceonometric analysis based on one-digit level panel data for manufacturing industry in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, for the period of 2000-2004. The results suggest that the increases in productivity are reflected in wages only to a modest extent, even in the long-term, leading to a steady decline in the share of labor in manufacturing industry in almost all sub-sectors in all countries. Meanwhile, the high significant and negative effect of unemployment on wages shows that the labor market is flexible in terms of wage flexibility. FDI has a positive effect on wages only in the capital and skill intensive sectors. The results also show that the increase in trade with EU did not lead to positive prospects for wages in manufacturing industry, contrary to the expectations of pro-market policies and traditional trade theory. The long-term net effect of exports and imports is negative, suggesting that integration of CEECs to EU via trade liberalization have worked at the expense of labor. (author's abstract)
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Hamd, Ambark Edris. "The effect of education on female fertility behaviour in El Gebel El Akhder in Libya." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2011. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/667d38f7-0aa3-49a6-82df-0ffd42685326.

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Libya, one of less advanced countries, has experienced extensive demographic change in recent decades. Although, efforts have been made to collect descriptive statistics relating to population change (such as Censuses), there has been no serious explanations of demographic change by academics of the reasons behind population trends in Libya.This thesis sought to explore in a rigorous fashion the extent to which socio-economic circumstances, particularly increased levels of female education, has influenced female fertility behaviour. This hypothesis was examined for the population of El Gebel El Akhdar, Libya.The study was based on a sample of 600 married women categorised by location (urban and rural), age (below and above 45 years) education level and socio-economic status. Quantitative and qualitative techniques were used to understand fertility differentials for both the older and younger women included in the survey both in urban and rural areas. It was demonstrated that there were important changes in female fertility behaviour taking place both in relation to the intermediate variables (marriage, post-partum infecundability, contraception) as presented in Bongaarts? theory (1982, 1985) and in relation to socio-economic factors (education, occupation, income, age difference of partner, place of birth and residence). Female education was given special attention in the research following the general research framework of Jeffery and Basu theory (1996).Females with higher educational attainment, and thus higher employability, were characterised by relatively higher ages at first marriage, a smaller family size and a concurrently positive attitude towards approval and use of family planning and using contraceptive. They also engaged in a period of shorter breastfeeding. The inverse emerged as true for uneducated women.In addition to the effect of education on fertility, it emerged that change in female fertility behaviours and attitudes were also influenced by the interaction of many other socio-economic factors such as income, occupation, and partner age difference. On the contrary, the place of birth and place of residence did not help to explain fertility outcomes.

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Aytac, Isik Akin. "The effect of women's labor force participation on marital instability." PDXScholar, 1985. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3428.

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This thesis examines the effect of women's labor force participation on marital instability. It is hypothesized that women's income-earning affects marriage in two ways: 1) the "independence effect" facilitates divorce by enabling women to be self-supporting; 2) the "parallel marriage effect" improves marital satisfaction and the quality of the marital relationship because women with higher incomes generally have more power in marriage. The "independence effect" is measured by whether or not women's income is sufficient, defined as income above the poverty line for the appropriate family size as established by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. "Parallel marriage" is measured by the wife-husband income ratio. Both women's own income level and wife-husband income ratio are taken two years prior to her divorce.

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Minoletti, Paul. "The importance of gender ideology and identity : the shift to factory production and its effect on work and wages in the English textile industries, 1760-1850." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:7697b548-d389-4d20-9150-1891ec65c95f.

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Textile manufacture in England had always employed a high proportion of women and this continued to be the case during the period 1760-1850. However, these industries underwent dramatic changes in both the nature and location of production, and women’s employment opportunities altered. Whilst in some cases technological advances reduced the strength required to perform a given process, making women more attractive to employers, this was not always the case. Urbanisation and factory production increased trade union influence, which often acted to the detriment of women’s access to well-paid occupations. The long standardised hours worked away from the home typically required of factory workers made it harder for women to combine textile work with the mothering and domestic responsibilities expected of them. As well as making it harder for women to work throughout their life, this discouraged investment in human capital of females by both themselves and their parents. Ideological resistance to women’s work outside of the home increased as the Industrial Revolution progressed. The more formalised work hierarchy created by factory production meant that resistance to female authority became increasingly important for denying women access to the best paid occupations. Ideology was not merely a response to material factors, but helped determine decisions made by economic actors. This thesis draws on a number of parliamentary reports over the period 1802-67. Not only do these reports provide a wealth of qualitative information, they also contain quantitative information which enables me to track male and female factory earnings over the life-cycle, by region and industry. The information in the parliamentary reports is used in conjunction with business records of various firms, covering both domestic and factory workers, as well as the writings of numerous contemporary observers.

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Lee, Alexis. "Does Self-Esteem Mediate the Effect of Attachment on Relationship Quality." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6420.

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The purpose of this study was to examine the possible mediating effect of self-esteem on the relationship between attachment security and relationship quality. Previous studies have found a positive association between attachment style and relationship quality. One possible explanation for this link may be self-esteem, which has been shown to consistently predict relationship quality. Therefore, I hypothesized that self-esteem may mediate the relationship between attachment and relationship quality. A sample of 680 married couples that completed the sections on attachment, self-esteem, marital satisfaction, marital stability, and problem areas in the relationship of the RELATE questionnaire between 2011 and 2013 was used. The data were analyzed using an Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM) to help account for shared variance. Results found that there is a positive link between one's attachment and their level of self-esteem and their own relationship quality. However, results also found negative trend-level effects for the links between attachment and partner's level of self-esteem and self-esteem and own relationship quality. There was no mediating effect of self-esteem on the relationship between attachment and relationship quality.

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Peterson, Sarahfina Aubrey. "The Effect of Social Media on Public Awareness and Extra-Judicial Effects| The Gay Marriage Cases and Litigating for New Rights." Thesis, Portland State University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1572110.

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When the Supreme Court grants new rights, public awareness is a crucial part of enforcement. Gerald N. Rosenberg and Michael J. Klarman famously criticized minority rights organizations for attempting to gain new rights through the judiciary. The crux of their argument relied heavily on the American media's scanty coverage of Court issues and subsequent low public awareness of Court cases. Using the 2013 United States v. Windsor and Hollingsworth v. Perry rulings as a case study, I suggest that the media environment has changed so much since Rosenberg and Klarman were writing that their theories warrant reconsideration. Minority rights groups now have access to social media, a potentially powerful tool with which to educate the public about the Supreme Court and new rights granted by the Court.

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