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'Bed and Board' in Lieu of Salary: Women and Girl Children Domestics in Post Partition Calcutta (1951-1981)
Chakravarty, Deepita; Chakravarty, Ishita - eSocialSciences - 2010
The present study attempts to see how a particular labour market, that is, domestic service, a traditionally male domain, became segregated both by gender and age in post partition West Bengal (WB) and mainly in its capital city Calcutta. [CESS WP 84].
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Fertility, Female Labor Supply and Public Policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - eSocialSciences - 2010
Historically, in virtually all developed economies there seems to be clear evidence of an inverse relationship between female labor supply and fertility. However, particularly in the last decade or so, the relationship across countries has been positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy...
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The Wage Elasticity of Informal Care Supply: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Nizalova, Olena - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper focuses on the relationship between wages and supply of informal care to elderly parents. Unlike most of the previous research estimating wage elasticities of informal care supply, this study employs instrumental variable technique to account for the fact that the wage rate is likely...
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Preliminary Evidence on Internal Migration, Remittances, and Teen Schooling in India
Mueller, Valerie; Shariff, Abusaleh - eSocialSciences - 2013
Migration can serve as an outlet for employment, higher earnings, and reduced income risk for households in developing countries. The 2004–2005 Human Development Profile of India survey is used to examine correlations between the receipt of remittances from internal migrants and human...
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Learning and Earning: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India
Maitra, Pushkar; Mani, Subha - eSocialSciences - 2013
aimed at improving labor market outcomes of women residing in low-income households in a developing country. [IGC working …
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Participation in Economy
eSocialSciences; Central Statistical Organization CSO - 2014
This is the 4th Chapter of the report 'Women and Men in India' by CSO. Although women constitute a little less than the …
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The Gender Gap in Mathematics: Evidence from Low-and-Middle Income Countries
Bharadwaj, Prashant; Giorgi, Giacomo de; Hansen, David; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
Is there a gender gap in mathematics across many low- and middle-income countries? A detailed, comparable test score data is used to analyze this. Micro level data on school performance linked to household demographics shows that the gender gap appears to increase with age. It is shown that...
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The Youth of Arab Spring
Al Jazeera . - eSocialSciences - 2013
Al Jazeera Centre for Studies recently conducted an opinion poll, surveying 8,045 young men and women from Tunisia …
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Applying an Equity Lens to Maternal Health Care Practices in Pakistan
Mahmood, Naushin; Bashir, Saima - eSocialSciences - 2012
The focus of this study is to see how equitable the access and utilisation of health services are among married women … of health care among married women beginning in the urban areas and more recently spreading to rural areas. Among the … level of women improves utilisation of maternal health care services. The inequity pattern disfavouring the poor and the …
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Draft National Land Reforms Policy
eSocialSciences; Ministry of Rural Development GOI - 2013
marginalized, especially marginalized women. Policy provisions are also made in Draft for Discussion Purposes and Comments such a …
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