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Health shocks and coping strategies : state health insurance scheme of Andhra Pradesh, India
Dhanaraj, Sowmya - 2014
The objectives of the study are three-fold: to investigate who are vulnerable to welfare loss from health shocks, what … are the household responses to cope with the economic burden of health shocks and if policy responses like state health … state health insurance schemes in reducing the vulnerability to financials risks of medical care using catastrophic health …
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The care connection : the World Bank and women's unpaid care work in select sub- Saharan African countries
Bibler, Sarah; Zuckerman, Elaine - 2013
With the aim of reducing women's greater unpaid care work than men&'s and increasing women's paid employment, this paper examines the extent to which World Bank investments address unpaid care work. The paper conducts an in-depth gender analysis of 36 World Bank employment-related projects in...
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Maternal employment and children's outcomes : evidence from Indonesia
Dervisevic, Ervin; Lo Bue, Maria C.; Perova, Elizaveta - 2021
needed to provide core inputs for children's health and education. However, maternal employment comes at the cost of time … children's health and education in Indonesia. We mobilize several data sources to construct a dataset of more than 32 … female-intensive sectors. We find that maternal employment significantly improves both education and health outcomes. …
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Young women's transitions from education to the labour market in Ethiopia : a gendered life-course perspective
Admasu, Yeshwas; Crivello, Gina; Porter, Catherine - 2021
We investigate the causes of the gender disparity in labour market participation in Ethiopia using iterative quantitative and qualitative longitudinal analysis through the whole childhood of the individual into early adulthood, from age 8 up to age 25. Multilevel survival analysis shows that...
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Social norms as a barrier to women's employment in developing countries
Jayachandran, Seema - 2019
This paper discusses cultural barriers to women's participation and success in the labor market in developing countries. I begin by describing how gender norms influence the relationship between economic development and female employment, as well as how gender norms differ substantially across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122672
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Gender identity and female labour supply in Brazil
Codazzi, Karen; Pero, Valéria; Sant'Anna, André - 2017
Over the last half-century, the role of women in society has changed substantially. However, the gender income gap and the difference in labour force participation persist. Akerlof and Kranton introduce the concept of identity from sociology and social psychology at the economic analysis; based...
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The rise in women's labour force participation in Mexico : supply vs demand factors
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021
We estimate the relative importance of alternative labour supply and demand mechanisms in explaining the rise of female labour force participation over the last 55 years in Mexico. The growth of female labour force participation in Mexico between 1960 and 2015 followed an S-shape, with a...
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Ban on female migrant workers : skills-differentiated evidence from Sri Lanka
Weeraratne, Bilesha - 2021
This study examines the skills-differentiated impact of a restrictive female labour migration policy in Sri Lanka using monthly departure data from 2012 to 2018 in a difference-indifference model. The Family Background Report policy has resulted in decreasing departures among lower-skilled...
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Global collective action in health : the WDR+20 landscape of core and supportive functions
Blanchet, Nathan (contributor) - 2014
This paper discusses shifts in development assistance for health (DAH) since 1990, analyses the nature of the current … an ‘essential functions’ framework, which provides a function-based taxonomy for global collective action in health, and … questions about the future balance of essential functions of global health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230926
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Education policy, vocational training, and the youth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Oketch, Moses - 2014
Technical, vocational education, and training has remained an explosive topic because it can create a divided society in terms of education and the benefits associated with it. Internationally, it has always been a complex and controversial topic compared to the general education strand. It has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337685