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What Drives Female Labor Force Participation? Comparable Micro-Level Evidence from Eight Developing and Emerging Economies
Klasen, Stephan - 2019
middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to … linear (Brazil and South Africa) to being U- or J-shaped (India, Jordan, and Indonesia), or a mixture of both (Bolivia …
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Dynamics in Health and Employment : Evidence from Indonesia
Mani, Subha - 2016
recoveries from disability on both employment status and hours worked using panel data from Indonesia. We find that changes in … towards a need for social protection policies with a focus on health, disability, and employment in Indonesia … to an increase in the probability of leaving employment, while recoveries increase the probability of returning to work …
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Women's Transitions in the Labour Market as a Result of Childbearing : The Challenges of Formal Sector Employment in Indonesia
Cameron, Lisa A.; Contreras Suarez, Diana; Tseng, Yi-Ping - 2023
Indonesian Family Life Survey to track the employment histories of over 9,000 women across a period of more than 20 years … labour market as a result of marriage and childbearing. The difficulty of maintaining formal sector employment emerges as a … thereafter by 3.6 percentage points. Further, to the extent that women do return to work, formal sector employment is associated …
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Africa's Industrialization Prospects : A Fresh Look
Naudé, Wim; Tregenna, Fiona - 2023
This paper identifies the determinants of industrialization in 18 African countries, 1965 to 2018, using various estimators and applying a battery of robustness checks. Industrialization in Africa is driven by historical legacies such as colonialism; geographical factors such as rainfall and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014351490
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Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism
Doepke, Matthias - 2015
The British Industrial Revolution triggered a reversal in the social order of society whereby the landed elite was replaced by industrial capitalists rising from the middle classes as the economically dominant group. Many observers have linked this transformation to the contrast in values...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012707835
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Three Varieties of Africa's Industrial Future
Naudé, Wim - 2019
This paper shows that African economies have generally not de-industrialized, that manufacturing growth is very possible, and moreover that the contribution of manufacturing in Africa has been underestimated. As far as the future is concerned, African countries will in differing degrees...
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Homeownership of Immigrants in France : Selection Effects Related to International Migration Flows
Gobillon, Laurent - 2015
We investigate the difference in homeownership rates between natives and first-generation immigrants in France, and how this difference evolves over the 1975-1999 period, by using a large longitudinal dataset. We find that the homeownership gap is large and has increased. Entries into the...
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Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women
Heath, Rachel - 2014
women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046250
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Clans, Guilds, and Markets : Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy
de la Croix, David - 2016
In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. We argue that superior institutions for the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge...
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Technology-Skill Complementarity in the Early Phase of Industrialization
Franck, Raphael - 2016
The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997443