gainful employment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgainfulandemployment
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gainful
adjective
uk/ˈɡeɪn.fəl/us/ˈɡeɪn.fəl/
providing money or something else that ...
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employment
noun[U]
uk/ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/us/ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/
the fact of someone being paid to work for a company ...
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(Definition ofgainfulandemploymentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In summary, a comparison of the data ongainfulemploymentfrom the 1926 and 1939 population censuses reveals two main trends.
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There, for clear regulatory reasons, allgainfulemploymentwas allowed without loss of benefits. 37.
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Foremost, he was poor: he never heldgainfulemployment, surviving on donations.
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Self-employment, targeted by state repression from the late 1920s, practically disappeared, leaving paid employment as the only viable form ofgainfulemployment.
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This same insurance will be required as a condition forgainfulemploymentbeyond minimum wage.
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By decommodification, he means governmental social insurance, assistance, and services that render people less critically dependent ongainfulemployment.
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The farm family obtains scope forgainfulemploymentthe year round thereby ensuring a reasonable income and higher standard of living.
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Many expressed hopes that the experience would help them find othergainfulemployment.
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Wanting to develop as a teacher has an obvious relationship with whether the long-term prospects forgainfulemploymentappear rosy or bleak.
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So far this surge of livelihood ' multiplexity ' has not generated adequate overall levels ofgainfulemployment, technical innovation, purchasing power or welfare improvement.
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Tables 11 and 12 characterize thegainfulemploymentof the children of the head of household between 0 and 25 years of age in 1926.
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However, although often so portrayed, it was not a society of universal employment where all able-bodied members of working age derived their income fromgainfulemployment.
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Table 11 sets out the percentage of sons and daughters ingainfulemploymentaccording to whether they were employed or self-employed and the nature of that employment.
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The most important difference between men and women, except for the generally lower levels of labour participation among women, had to do with patterns ofgainfulemploymentamong the elderly.
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In both regions, nearly three quarters of men were gainfully employed, while among women the percentages ingainfulemploymentwere 21 and 13 in the urban and rural regions respectively.
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On the other hand, a revisionist view emphasising the punitive character of relief in past societies, and the marginalisation of those (especially women) withoutgainfulemployment.
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Yet others, as mentioned above, have become salaried workers in the city centres by utilising their traditional occupation of sweeping and cleaning to get into stable andgainfulemployment.
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Drawing on population censuses and time-budget surveys, it analyses trends in labour participation andgainfulemploymentfor men, women and different age-groups from the mid-1920s to the late 1930s.
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I suggest that this is no example with which to woo a young person intogainfulemployment.
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