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Globalisation and the Gender Earnings Gap : Evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia 1992-2015
Robertson, Raymond - 2018
This paper focuses on how the forces of globalisation, specifically the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA), have affected women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri Lanka, we find large positive wage premiums and a...
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Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women
Heath, Rachel - 2014
We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to garment sector jobs to women living further away from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046250
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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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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...
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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 …
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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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Can Women's Self-Help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India
Anand, Paul - 2020
the poorest rural regions of the world (Uttar Pradesh, India). Methodologically, it shows how indicators from the direct …-strand programs can help to explain the paradox as to why nearly 100 million women (in India alone) have participated in self help …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842049
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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