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Women's empowerment and HIV prevention in rural Malawi
Gerritzen, Berit C. - In: Feminist economics 22 (2016) 3, pp. 1-25
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Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Sex-Specific Earnings on Sex Imbalance
Qian, Nancy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Economists long have argued that the severe sex imbalance that exists in many developing countries is caused by underlying economic conditions. This paper uses plausibly exogenous increases in sex-specific agricultural income caused by post-Mao reforms in China to estimate the effects of total...
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Part-Time and Temporary Employment: A Gender Perspective
Addabbo, Tindara; Favaro, Donata - In: Non-Standard Employment and Quality of Work. The Case …
This essay disentangles the inequalities in the take-up of non-standard work by gender as well as the gender …
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Women Empowerment and Economic Development
Duflo, Esther - In: Journal of Economic Literature 50 (2012) 4, pp. 1051-79
Women empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major … role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development … literature on both sides of the empowerment–development nexus, and argues that the interrelationships are probably too weak to …
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Social protection programs for women in developing countries : how to design social protection programs that poor women can benefit from
Cameron, Lisa Ann - 2014
Women are more likely than men to work in the informal sector and to drop out of the labor force for a time, such as after childbirth, and to be impeded by social norms from working in the formal sector. This work pattern undermines productivity, increases women's vulnerability to income shocks,...
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What happened to real earnings in Egypt, 2008 to 2009?
Cichello, Paul L.; Abou-Ali, Hala; Marotta, Daniela - In: IZA journal of labor & development 2 (2013), pp. 1-38
Nominal earnings in Egypt did not respond to the increase in inflation between February 2008 and February 2009, resulting in a 12.3 (9) percent decline in average (median) real earnings among 25 to 60 years old workers. Changes in earnings differ significantly by groups: (i) those with higher...
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Economic growth, comparative advantage, and gender differences in schooling outcomes: Evidence from the birthweight differences of Chinese twins
Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Zhang, Junsen - In: Journal of Development Economics 104 (2013) C, pp. 245-260
development in affecting gender differences in the trends in, levels of, and returns to schooling observed in China and in many …, and/or nutritional improvements that are the result of economic development and growth. …
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Migration and gender differences in the home labour market: Evidence from Albania
Mendola, Mariapia; Carletto, Calogero - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 6, pp. 870-880
This paper examines the role of migration in affecting the labour market opportunities of male and female household members left behind. We address this question by analyzing the impact of international migration flows from Albania, where migration is a massive and male-dominated phenomenon. We...
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Estimates of gender differences in firm’s access to credit in Sub-Saharan Africa
Hansen, Henrik; Rand, John - In: Economics Letters 123 (2014) 3, pp. 374-377
constraints lead to three different estimates of gender differences in manufacturing firms’ credit situation. Using a perception … financial access data we find no gender effect. Finally, using direct information on credit constraints, male owned small firms … appear disadvantaged. Furthermore we show a strong size gradient in the gender gap for the two measures for which we find …
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Political reservations and women's entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - In: Journal of Development Economics 108 (2014) C, pp. 138-153
We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not increase after the reforms, we find significant evidence that...
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