Based on in-depth interviews with 18 women and a survey of 98 other low income women which were carried out in 1981. Finds that women heads of households are not necessarily economically disadvantaged and suggests that women may be heads of households by choice.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on a case study of the impact of international migration movements on the labour market in Oman - covers labour supply, labour demand, migrant worker characteristics by age, sex, occupation and educational level (incl. Expatriate workers), considers the effects of...

Investigates the nature and determinants of income distribution and poverty, and explores the relationships between indicators of income status and poverty and demographic indices.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the impact of international migration on employment in Saudi Arabia and Libyan Arab Jamahiriya - examines the reliance on migrant worker labour supply to meet labour demand resulting from petroleum industry expansion, and considers internal development of human...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the role and economic implications of migrant worker labour supply for the labour market and economic and social development in the Gulf States - covers population trends, human resources, educational level, industrialization policy, labour demand, etc.,...

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper on a comparison of two surveys (1969-70 and 1979-80) of return migration and employment in the mezzogiorno regional level area of Italy - studies reasons for return of Italian migrant workers (free circulation in EC countries, end of the migration wave, etc.) And...