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In the beginning of the 1890s, counties located in the Cotton Belt of the American South were hit by an agricultural plague, the boll weevil, that adversely affected cotton production and hence the demand for labor. We use variation in the incidence of the boll weevil multiplied with counties’...
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globalization on female employment in 33 OECD countries, using a pseudo micro panel on 110’000 persons from the World Values Survey … information exchange, increases employment probabilities of women. However, when accounting for sub-national regional differences …) increases female employment in a cross-country fashion. …
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globalization on female employment in 30 OECD countries, using a micro pseudo panel of 110’000 persons derived from five waves of … the probability of employment for women – contradicting the Becker (1957)-hypothesis of international competition … mitigating discrimination in employment. However, accounting for sub-national regional gender heterogeneity reveals that the …
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Traditional official definition of ‘work’ in developing countries excludes large number of activities that are predominantly performed by women. Naturally official Female Labour Force Participation Rate is quite low in such countries. Women who are officially in the labourforce must...
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maintain high levels of employment and participation rates, especially among female and older workers, and to reduce structural …
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employment dividend can be reaped by productivity growth increases if the labour market starts functioning. The findings also …
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This paper examines the spatial interaction of neighboring cities over their employment cycles. The cycles of …-similar employment cycles, but neighboring cities with similar racial compositions tend to have less-similar employment cycles …
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employment of women. …
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The analysis of labour market participation is useful for formulating employment and human resource development … employment opportunities. …
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most widespread form of female employment in rural areas in Turkey. For single women, most of whom are in the school age …
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