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Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, preventing them from taking advantage of economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to engage in long-distance migration-if they...
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Drawing data from the India Human Development Survey 2011 and the year of the first election with reserved seats for women pradhans, I estimate the effect of the Panchayati Raj institutions on age and autonomy over marriage. Results indicate that women in local government decrease the likelihood...
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Divorce and widowhood followed by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous marital trajectories affect women's wellbeing. Women's marital trajectories in Senegal are described and correlated with measures of voice, resource constraints, and wellbeing as...
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In this paper, we explore the links between polygyny and female labour supply in Senegal using a nationally representative survey. In a reduced-form approach, we first measure the impact of polygyny on participation using a joint model of spouse participation. The identification of the impact of...
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, higher exposure to recruitment-related vulnerability, and lower foreign employment opportunities. The study also finds that …
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We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … conditional employment probabilities of married women, as compared with men, is the other factor. These findings point at …
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nature of this immigration, but have not analysed the impacts on the economy. This paper presents a theoretical and empirical … analysis of the impact of illegal immigration on the economy of the small open type, like that of Greece. The theoretical … analysis uses a small stylised model to show that there is no unequivocal case for illegal immigration to lead to declines in …
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workers and 43% of the gap for women. An analysis of undocumented immigrants legalized after the 1986 U.S. immigration policy …
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This paper analyzes the welfare effects of immigration and its subsequent effect on ethnic diversity in a model … individuals and endogenous levels of immigration and assimilation. In the model, an increase in ethnic diversity reduces the … spillovers effect for the majority. Nonetheless, immigration can be welfare improving for the majority ethnic group even if it …
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This paper studies the effect of increased immigration in Austria on the unemployment risk of young natives. Austria …
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