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Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China : 1982-2000
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2014
We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071080
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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China
Connelly, Rachel - 2014
Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055896
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It's a Boy! Women and Non-Monetary Benefits from a Son in India
Zimmermann, Laura - 2012
Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women may contribute to the persistence of this phenomenon because they derive substantial long-run non-monetary benefits from giving birth to a son in the form of an improvement in their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099723
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Marital Violence and Women's Employment and Property Status : Evidence from North Indian Villages
Bhattacharya, Manasi - 2009
Dominant development policy approaches recommend women's employment on the grounds that it facilitates their empowerment, which in turn is believed to be instrumental in enhancing women's well-being. However, empirical work on the relationship between women's employment status and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157025
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Male Wage Inequality and Marital Dissolution : Is There a Link?
Bellou, Andriana - 2013
After almost a century-long pattern of rising marital instability, divorce rates leveled off in 1980 and have been declining ever since. The timing of deceleration and decline in the rates of marital disruption interestingly coincides with a period of substantial growth in wage inequality. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083364
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On the Origins of Gender Roles : Women and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124476
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Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India : The Effect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Afridi, Farzana - 2012
We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104970
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Do Family Planning Programmes Help Women's Employment? The Case of Indian Mothers
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2008
labour market. A unique, rich and representative data survey for all Indian states and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998-1999) allows … married women aged 15 to 49. Our results for urban and rural India show that the FP effect is significant in rural India, that … India, we compare this effect with that one of Governmental Policies (GP) supporting household income and promoting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773568
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894075
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Returns to Education and Female Participation Nexus : Evidence from India
Kanjilal-Bhaduri, Dr.Sanghamitra - 2017
In this paper, we make an attempt to understand whether low labour market returns to education in India are responsible … level data of India for the year 2011–12 is used to examine the relationship between educational attainment and labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940848