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Why Do Women Have Longer Unemployment Durations than Men in Post-Restructuring Urban China?
This paper provides the first systematic analysis of the reasons why women endure longer unemployment durations than men in post-restructuring urban China using data obtained from a national representative household survey. Rejecting the view that women are less earnest than men in their desire for employment, the analysis shows that women's job search efforts are handicapped by lack of access to social networks, social stereotyping (that married women are unreliable employees), unequal access to social reemployment services stemming from sex segregation prior to the displacement, and wage discrimination in the post-restructuring labor market.Gender inequality, unemployment duration, Oaxaca-decomposition
Ferroelectricity of Ice Nanotubes inside Carbon Nanotubes
We report that ice nanotubes with odd number of side faces inside carbon
nanotubes exhibit spontaneous electric polarization along its axes direction by
using molecular dynamics simulations. The mechanism of this nanoscale
quasi-one-dimensional ferroelectricity is due to low dimensional confinement
and the orientational order of hydrogen bonds. These ferroelectric fiber
structural materials are different from traditional perovskite structural bulk
materials.Comment: 4 pages and 4 figure
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