What is she best known for?
The fields of study she is best known for:
- World War II
- Social science
- Labour economics
Her primary areas of investigation include Labour economics, Family-friendly, Demographic economics, Socioeconomic status and Childbirth.
Family life and Empirical work are fields of study that intersect with her Labour economics study.
Her Family-friendly study overlaps with Business case, New business development, Business model, Business analysis and Line of business.
Her work in the fields of Demographic economics, such as Occupational mobility, intersects with other areas such as Perspective, Longitudinal data and Survival analysis.
Her studies examine the connections between Socioeconomic status and genetics, as well as such issues in Fertility, with regards to Birth order.
She integrates many fields, such as Cohort and engineering, in her works.
Her most cited work include:
- Feminist fallacies: a reply to Hakim on women's employment. (189 citations)
- Women's labor force transitions in connection with childbirth: a panel data comparison between Germany, Sweden and Great Britain. (154 citations)
- Flexible and Family‐Friendly Working Arrangements in UK‐Based SMEs: Business Cases (154 citations)
What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?
Shirley Dex focuses on Labour economics, Demographic economics, Demography, Gender studies and Occupational mobility.
In the subject of general Labour economics, her work in Labour supply and Wage is often linked to Socioeconomic status and Empirical work, thereby combining diverse domains of study.
Her Socioeconomic status study often links to related topics such as Fertility.
Her Demographic economics research includes themes of Field and Development studies.
Shirley Dex conducts interdisciplinary study in the fields of Demography and Millennium Cohort Study through her works.
Her research on Gender studies frequently connects to adjacent areas such as Social mobility.
She most often published in these fields:
- Labour economics (32.62%)
- Demographic economics (21.28%)
- Demography (9.22%)
What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2008-2017)?
- Labour economics (32.62%)
- Demography (9.22%)
- Demographic economics (21.28%)
In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:
Her primary areas of study are Labour economics, Demography, Demographic economics, Millennium Cohort Study and Diversity.
Shirley Dex is interested in Occupational mobility, which is a branch of Labour economics.
Her Demography research overlaps with Volume and Survival analysis.
Her study on Demographic economics is mostly dedicated to connecting different topics, such as Social mobility.
The various areas that Shirley Dex examines in her Social mobility study include Social psychology and Scale.
Her studies deal with areas such as Argument, Applied psychology, Field and Operations research as well as Hierarchy.
Between 2008 and 2017, her most popular works were:
- Children of the 21st Century: The first five Years (42 citations)
- Bad Start: Is There a Way Up? Gender Differences in the Effect of Initial Occupation on Early Career Mobility in Britain (35 citations)
- The conceptualisation and measurement of occupational hierarchies: a review, a proposal and some illustrative analyses (30 citations)
In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- World War II
- Social science
- Unemployment
Shirley Dex mostly deals with Earnings, Demographic economics, Social mobility, Gender studies and National Child Development Study.
Her work carried out in the field of Demographic economics brings together such families of science as Life course approach and Labour economics.
Her Social mobility study combines topics in areas such as Social psychology and Scale.
As part of her studies on Gender studies, Shirley Dex frequently links adjacent subjects like Reproduction.
National Child Development Study combines with fields such as Hierarchy, Operations research, Field, Typology and Social stratification in her work.
Her biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Argument and Applied psychology.
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