-oriented activities in Pakistan. As a by-product, our estimation approach also tests the existence of perfect labor and factor markets …

Using detailed data from rural Pakistan, this paper investigates whether human capital, learning by doing, gender, and … separate effect of gender and family status. Households seem to operate as hierarchies with sexually segregated spheres of …

This paper reviews donor experience with the design of development projects that are sensitive to gender …-specific constraints. The review finds that the gap between intentions and implementation as regards gender-sensitivity is larger in …

functioning of rural nonfarm labor markets is therefore crucial in determining who has access to nonfarm employment. Previous … contacts are more likely to obtain nonfarm jobs. Moreover, guanxi has a larger effect on the nonfarm employment opportunities …

"The rural nonfarm economy (RNFE) accounts for roughly 25 percent of full-time rural employment and 35-40 percent of …

/year-specific correlated shocks, show that (1) the relative size of the migrant population in the market decreases employment probabilities of … new migrants (negative substitution effect), (2) the employment probability of previous migrants increases those of new … migrants (positive externalities), and (3) when the employment probability of previous migrants approaches to unity, the size …

This paper reviews the econometric evidence on gender differences in agricultural productivity. It provides a … gender, (2) individual (gender-disaggregated) labor supply and earnings functions and (3) studies of the determinants of …