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states and for urban and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998/9), we select our sample drawing information from the household data set … stay home and send her children to school the better is the father's employment position and the wealthier is the family …
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This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely …
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Survey (NFHS-2) for India, we find that, controlling for many covariates among which wealth is the most powerful predictor …
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Dominant development policy approaches recommend women's employment on the grounds that it facilitates their … relationship between women's employment status and their well-being as measured by freedom from marital violence yields an … Uttar Pradesh, to examine the effect of women's employment and asset status as measured by their participation in paid work …
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The pattern of employment among men and women has changed remarkably over the past decades. While the employment rate … in employment levels. In this paper we attempt to measure the impact of the changes of women and men?s employment … examine the impact of employment changes on inequality in family income distribution and how this relationship has changed …
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This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and decomposes these differences into treatment and endowment effects using the technique developed by Borooah and Iyer (2005). Population census data are used to estimate...
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Older women's patterns of labor supply over the past forty years have differed markedly from those of younger women. Their labor force participation declined sharply during a period of rapid increase for younger women, and then increased significantly while younger women's plateaued and even...
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employment stability enjoyed by workers. This implies that in Italy women with highly protected and stable jobs find it easier to …
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This paper examines the impact of actual subsidy receipt of single mothers on their joint employment and child care … employment while moving from parental and relative care to center care in the process. …
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employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct … employment boom - contributed only marginally, if at all, to the rise in female labor supply. The increasing proportion of women …
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