Who is in charge of family finances in the Russian two-earner households?

Using a recent representative survey and supplemental interviews, we investigate household money management and domestic power dynamics in contemporary Russian two-partner families. During the Soviet period, it was women who typically managed household money. Today, while 45.6% of contemporary Russian two-partner households pool money and manage it jointly, and in about a quarter of families women are in charge, families with men in control of domestic money are on the rise among more affluent spouses who have been married for less than 20 years. While previous work finds evidence for the feminization of poverty in the postcommunist region, we underscore the otherwise hidden aspects of inequality—gendered access to household money among the relative “winners” of the transition: Younger and more affluent families. We place these changes in the context of neoliberal market reforms, including labor market and welfare policy changes and the rise of neoconservative gender ideology.The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: National Research University Higher School of Economics "Household Financial Behaviour Monitor." (National Research University Higher School of Economics "Household Financial Behaviour Monitor")Accepted manuscrip

Influence of physical activity on development of the roundabout course

Introduction. Walls of veins of a wide fastion of a hip are much thicker at the expense of well developed external cover. Muscular veins have no such powerful external cover, they well developed a muscular layer. Veins are characterized by well developed muscular layer and an elastic framework

Propensity for Knowledge Sharing: An Equity Theory Approach

Determining which factors promote or impede the sharing of knowledge within organizations constitutes an important area of research. This paper looks at knowledge sharing through the lens of equity theory. The study will explore the impact of three types of justice – distributional, procedural and interactional – on knowledge sharing. Distributional justice refers to the judgments that people make with respect to the input/output ratios they experience relative to the ratios experienced by others with whom they identify (reference others). Procedural justice has to do with following procedures that are consistent, unbiased, accurate, correctable, representative and ethical. Interactional justice refers to the quality of interpersonal treatment. Hypotheses regarding the influence of distributional, procedural, and interactional justice on knowledge sharing processes are presented. These hypotheses will be tested based on the survey. The survey instrument will be developed based on the adaptation of previously validated scales in addition to new items where no existing measures are found. The new items will be subject to the review of an expert panel comprised of the IS graduate faculty. After incorporating suggestions of the panel, the instrument will be piloted on a sample of the investigated population. The proposed sample will consist of IT professionals working on software development project teams at several Fortune 500 companies representing various industries. The results of the pilot study and the feedback received at the consortium will help refine and modify the instrument before the administration of the final survey

Structural and Semantic Properties of Parenthesis in English Essays

The article deals with structural and semantic peculiarities of parenthesis used in English essays.

PEDAGOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PECULIARITIES OF TRAINING FUTURE SPECIALISTS OF PRIMARY EDUCATION TO INNOVATIVE PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE

This article is about specific psychological and pedagogical features of training future primary education specialists to innovative professional performance. Furthemore, the importance of pedagogical practise , modern technologies and cooperation with parents during preparation of future specialists of primary education to innovative professional performance are mentioned belo

Financial Crisis, Risk-taking and Early Warning Systems

This thesis explores three important topics which contribute to the study of bank credit risk and the global financial stability. Chapter 2 “Financial Crisis: the case of Spain” focuses on the nature of the financial crises and their common characteristics. Also, it reviews the Spanish financial crisis and features that makes it distinctive. Chapter 3 “Determinants of bank excessive risk-taking behaviour” concentrates on the main reasons behind the financial crisis and empirically analyzes bank risk-taking factors for the three types of Spanish banks: commercial, saving and cooperative banks. Chapter 4 “Early Warning Model for European banks: evidence from the recent financial crisis” analyses empirically a sample of European listed banks and tests the effectiveness of Early Warning System (EWS), based on Expected Default Frequencies and accounting ratios, in forecasting the bank defaults during the recent financial crisis. The chapters are independent of each other in terms of theoretical grounding, dataset and methodology but complement each other by investigating the recent financial crisis from three different angles. Our study suggests that the Spanish financial crisis is not an exception to the general pattern of crises. The sequences of events evident preceding the crisis have many common features with what has already been witnessed in other financial crises. Furthermore, our findings indicate that there is a strong correlation between the bank’s ownership structure and its risk-taking behaviour. The results show positive association between risk and Spanish savings banks and negative with banks with dispersed ownership. We confirm the negative influence of wholesale funding, but not in favour of deposit funding. Instead, we find adverse effect of deposit funding on bank risk. We think this may be evidence of ‘excessive’ competition in deposit markets prior to the crisis when banks raise their deposit rates too high to attract more depositors by increasing their cost of funding and decreasing their interest margins. Also results show the negative influence of non-traditional income such as commissions and fee income. We find that equity has stable risk reducing character while impaired loans have a strong harmful effect of on banks’ risk level. Last chapter findings reveal that EDF metrics combined with four CAMEL covariates and variable capturing adverse selection are able to predict the defaults of European banks up to 8 quarters before an event. When comparing the final model with that only including the EDF indicator the significance improves considerably, suggesting that added variables provide additional information and power to the model