Women's structures have long featured in many uK and Canadian unions, and their forms and functions continue to widen. extant literature highlights their concern with improving female union members' conditions in the workplace, but a growing body of scholarly work observes that women's structures may act as change agents within the trade union setting. Drawing on recent survey and interview evi...

We present recent CMS measurements of diffractive and exclusive processes, using data collected at 7 TeV at theLHC. Measurements of soft singleand double-diffractive cross sections are presented, as well as measurements of photoninducedprocesses including studies of exclusive WW production via photon-photon exchange Presented at DIFFRACTION 2014 8-th International Workshop on Diffraction in Hig...

This paper analyses the extent of income inequality and opportunity inequality in 25 European countries. The present work contributes to understanding the origin of standard income inequality, helping to identify potential institutional setups that are associated to opportunity inequality. We distinguish between ex ante and ex post opportunity inequality. We find that ex ante equality of opport...

In this talk I review the status of our ability to extract the CKM matrix elements |Vub| and |Vcb| from semileptonic decays. I will review both exclusive and inclusive methods and put a strong emphasis on how to ensure keeping the extractions model independent.

for helpful discussions in the design of survey modules related to the land registration and family law. We also thank participants at the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey Workshop at Lalibela, with special thanks to Paul Dorosh, Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse, Stefan Dercon, Valerie Mueller and Tassew Woldehanna. All errors and omissions are our own. 1 Kes be kes enqullal be-egrwa tihedalech. Littl...

Equality between men and women exists when both sexes are able to share equally in the distribution of power and influence. Although the gender gap in labour market participation has narrowed, gender differences in everyday experiences persist in developing countries. This article reviews the place of feminists today in the advancement of gender equality in the Southern African Development Comm...

To keep notation usage down, during the proof of this step we let mt̄−1 = m and mt̄−1 = m ′. Suppose that for some t ≥ 0 there is a pair of sequences s = (st̄, . . . , st̄+t) and γ t̄,t̄+t = (γt̄, . . . , γt̄+t) such that: (a) at̄+τ (m, st̄, . . . , st̄+τ−1, γt̄, . . . , γt̄+τ−1)> at̄+τ (m′, st̄, . . . , st̄+τ−1, γt̄, . . . , γt̄+τ−1) for every τ ≤ t, and (b) at̄+t+1(m, st̄, . . . , st̄+t, γt̄, . . . , γt̄+t) ≤ at̄+t+...