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What Does it Mean to be a Woman? How the Content of Gender Identity May Facilitate Women’s Coping with Sexual Harassment by Western, Kate A. B., Cruwys, Tegan, Ryan, Michelle K.

“…Sexual harassment and other forms of gendered discrimination are social psychological phenomena, yet the psychological impact of sexual harassment has rarely…”
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The Impact of Incarceration on Wage Mobility and Inequality by Western, Bruce

“…Western calculates the effects of incarceration on wage inequality using estimates of the impact of incarceration on individual earnings. By focusing on the…”
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Drug use in the year after prison by Western, Bruce, Simes, Jessica T.

“…With poor health and widespread drug problems in the U.S. prison population, post-prison drug use provides an important measure of both public health and…”
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Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration by Pettit, Becky, Western, Bruce

“…Although growth in the U.S. prison population over the past twenty-five years has been widely discussed, few studies examine changes in inequality in…”
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Identifying as a Survivor Versus a Victim After Sexual Violence Predicts Divergent Posttrauma Pathways by Western, Kate A B, Cruwys, Tegan, Evans, Olivia

“…The present study investigated social identification with "survivors" versus "victims" following sexual violence and the degree to which this predicted…”
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Black-white wage inequality, employment rates, and incarceration by WESTERN, Bruce, PETTIT, Becky

“…The observed gap in average wages between black men and white men inadequately reflects the relative economic standing of blacks, who suffer from a high rate…”
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Explaining the OECD Wage Slowdown Recession or Labour Decline? by Western, Bruce, Healy, Kieran

“…Wage growth slowed significantly in OECD countries in the 1980s and 1990s. Market explanations trace the wage slowdown to a recession characterized by…”
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Cohort Change and Racial Differences in Educational and Income Mobility by Bloome, Deirdre, Western, Bruce

“…Policy reforms and rising income inequality transformed educational and economic opportunities for Americans approaching midlife in the 1990s. Rising income…”
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Incarceration and the Formation and Stability of Marital Unions by Lopoo, Leonard M., Western, Bruce

“…Rising imprisonment rates and declining marriage rates among low-education African Americans motivate an analysis of the effects of incarceration on marriage…”
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Institutional Mechanisms for Unionization in Sixteen OECD Countries: An Analysis of Social Survey Data by Western, Bruce

“…A key debate in studies of unionization concerns the influence of structural characteristics of labor markets on labor organizing. Studies of national survey…”
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Unionization and Labor Market Institutions in Advanced Capitalism, 1950-1985 by Western, Bruce

“…This article examines the depedence of unionization on labor market institutions and long-run trends in inflation, unemployment, and the sectoral composition…”
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Anomalous hopping in hydrogenated amorphous silicon doped with phosphine by Western, B.J., Harcrow, M.S., Lopes, V.C., Syllaios, A.J., Philipose, U., Littler, C.L., Andrews, Sean, Chang, Tallis, Hong, John

“…Temperature dependent conductivity measurements were performed on phosphine doped hydrogenated amorphous silicon grown by plasma enhanced chemical vapor…”
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How unregulated is the U.S. labor market? The penal system as a labor market institution by WESTERN, B, BECKETT, K

“…Comparative research contrasts the corporatist welfare states of Europe with the unregulated U.S. labor markets to explain low rates of U.S. unemployment in…”
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Causal Heterogeneity in Comparative Research: A Bayesian Hierarchical Modelling Approach by Western, Bruce

“…Pooled cross-sectional time-series models in comparative politics typically constrain the effects of variables to be identical across countries. These models…”
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Inequality in Earnings at the Close of the Twentieth Century by Morris, Martina, Western, Bruce

“…Median income in the United States has fallen and the distribution of income has grown markedly more unequal over the past three decades, reversing a general…”
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Governing Social Marginality: Welfare, Incarceration, and the Transformation of State Policy by BECKETT, KATHERINE, WESTERN, BRUCE

“…Rapid growth of the US penal population over the last two decades has coincided with a decline in the number of welfare recipients. While shifts in crime…”
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The Labor Market Consequences of Incarceration by Western, Bruce, Kling, Jeffrey R., Weiman, David F.

“…Rapid growth in the incarceration rate over the past two decades has made prison time a routine event in the life course of young, economically disadvantaged…”
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Ultrasound velocity in human fingernail and effects of hydration: validation of in vivo nail thickness measurement techniques by Finlay, A Y, Western, B, Edwards, C

“…Distal nail thickness was measured using an electronic micrometer and both distal and proximal nail ultrasound times were recorded in 20 volunteers (10 male,…”
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Bayesian thinking about macrosociology by WESTERN, Bruce

“…Western weighs the merits of simple and complex social processes explanations, applying some basic ideas from Bayesian statistics. The Bayesian analysis…”
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Unions in Decline? What Has Changed and Why by Wallerstein, Michael, Western, Bruce

“…Between 1950 and 1980, labor markets grew increasingly organized in advanced industrial societies. Union membership in most countries expanded more rapidly…”
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