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Marriage, work, and migration : the role of infrastructure development and gender norms
Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2019
Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, preventing them from taking advantage of economic …
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012545484
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The economic gains of closing the employment gender gap : evidence from Morocco
Bargain, Olivier; Lo Bue, Maria C. - 2021
The present paper sheds new light on the growth implications of gender inequalities in the Moroccan labour market. We … confront two different approaches. The first one is based on firm data to estimate gender complementarity in production and …
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The gendered crisis : livelihoods and mental well-being in India during COVID-19
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Roy, Sanchari - 2021
This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points post-pandemic relative to pre-pandemic, while their monthly earnings...
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Does connectivity reduce gender gaps in offfarm employment? : evidence from 12 low- and middle-income countries
Egger, Eva-Maria; Arslan, Aslıhan; Zucchini, Emanuele - 2021
Gender gaps in labour force participation in developing countries persist despite income growth or structural change … across the rural-urban gradient. The gender gap increases with connectivity from rural to peri-urban areas, and disappears in … improves their access to off-farm employment. The gender gap persists for married young women independent of connectivity …
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Does it matter who you ask for time-use data?
Sharma, Deepti; Swaminathan, Hema; Lahoti, Rahul - 2024
Time-use statistics are sensitive to measurement error, especially errors that might be introduced based on whether the informant is reporting on herself or reporting on others in the household. In this paper, we use the nationally representative time-use survey in India and propensity score...
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Heterogeneous impact of internet availability on female labour market outcomes in an emerging economy : evidence from Indonesia
Kusumawardhani, Niken; Pramana, Rezanti; Saputri, … - 2021
Greater female labour market participation has important positive implications not only for women's empowerment and the well-being of their families but also for the economy they live in. In this paper, we examine the various effects of internet availability on women's labour market outcomes in...
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Invisible, successful, and divided : Vietnamese in Germany since the late 1970s
Bösch, Frank; Su, Phi Hong - 2018
Until the 1970s, only 1000 Vietnamese lived in West and East Germany, most of them international students. West Germany, in particular, had not yet been confronted with non-European refugees. This changed after 1978 with the influx of around 35,000 "boat people" from Viet Nam and other countries...
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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
paper examines the extent to which World Bank investments address unpaid care work. The paper conducts an in-depth gender … address unpaid care work. Doing so would improve economic and human development and reduce gender inequality. …
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