This paper investigates if residing in a joint family affects non-farm employment for married women in rural India. Our … estimates based on a longitudinal survey of over 27000 women conducted in 2005 and 2012, and using the conditional logistic … regression and instrumental variable approach suggest that living in a joint family lowers married women's non-farm employment by …

-studies, we find that education is not a driver of female labour participation in low-skilled jobs. Women from wealthier … dominance reduce women's labour force participation. Women who earn off-farm income are strengthened in their intra …

Although microfinance started as a movement to improve women's economic wellbeing through increased female … entrepreneurship in particular, its impact on women's attitudes toward and participation in the labour market is not fully understood …. We fill this gap by combining data on branch locations of the major microfinance institutions in Bangladesh with …

This article examines the relationship between women's economic and social empowerment in the context of extreme … poverty. It is based on the findings of primary fieldwork on the char islands of north-west Bangladesh, investigating the … cattle. This article argues that interventions which adopt primarily an economic entry point can contribute to women …

districts of Bangladesh with in-depth interviews with a sample of these women to explore these different explanations. It finds …Data on female labour force participation in Bangladesh suggest that, despite the increase in female … working women are concentrated in home-based activities. There have been various attempts to explain this, with some focusing …

This paper sets out to investigate the wellbeing of women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It undertakes … spatial and temporal comparisons of women's wellbeing using data from the Demographic and Health Survey and the Multiple … improvement and deterioration of women's welfare across the DRC over a three-year period (2007 - 10). …

design and outcomes. This constitutes a key challenge in Tanzania, where women and femaleheaded households are constrained by …, through their effects on workingage women's employment in the 2000s. We also discuss the extent to which women's employment is … areas of financial services, labour market regulations, and entrepreneurship support, and women's labour market position has …

This paper examines the impact of the Hindu Succession Act on married women's time use in India. The Hindu Succession … Act was amended between 1976 and 2005 by giving equal inheritance rights to women for inheriting property. To estimate the …. Using the nationally representative Time Use Survey 2019, I find that women exposed to the reform are investing 46 minutes …

-age women's labour supply decisions in India, where female labour force participation continues to decline over time. We find … for women aged 20-50, with the effect stronger for urban women. The effect is particularly strong if the pension …, leading to reduced labour supply by the elderly, allowing them to provide greater childcare support. The increase in women …

This paper aims to study the impact of migration on labour supply and time-use of women left behind in Kyrgyzstan … the labour supply data, this study uses detailed information on daily time-use, which is analysed within women … that the migration of a household member increases the choice of left-behind women to be unpaid family workers. Most of the …