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Women's Access to Labor Market Opportunities, Control of Household Resources, and Domestic Violence
Heath, Rachel - 2017
While there are many positive societal implications of increased female labor force opportunities, some theoretical models and empirical evidence suggest that working can increase a woman's risk of suffering domestic violence. Using a dataset collected in peri-urban Dhaka, this analysis...
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What Do 50 Years of Census Records and Household Survey Data Tell Us about Human Opportunities and Welfare in Latin America?
Calvo‐González, Oscar - 2020
detailed individual-level information from household surveys of several countries in the region. The paper widens an ongoing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837585
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Labor Market Effects of Demographic Shifts and Migration in OECD Countries
Docquier, Frédéric - 2018
The labor force of each industrial country is being shaped by three forces: ageing, education and migration. Drawing on a new database for the OECD countries and a standard analytical framework, this paper focuses on the relative and aggregate effects of these three forces on wages across...
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Remittances and Labor Supply in the Northern Triangle
Sousa, Liliana - 2018
activities and household production, decreasing labor supply. This paper uses propensity score matching and household surveys for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910836
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The Labor Market, Education and Armed Conflict in Tajikistan
Shemyakina, Olga - 2017
Shortly following its independence in 1991, Tajikistan suffered a violent civil war. This study explores the effect of this conflict on education and labor market outcomes for men and women. The results are based on the data from the 2003 and 2007 Tajik Living Standards Measurement Surveys that...
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Macroeconomic and Policy Implications of Population Aging in Brazil
Jorgensen, Ole Hagen - 2017
This paper analyzes the macroeconomic implications of population aging in Brazil. Three alternative yet complementary methodologies are adopted, and depending on policy responses to the fiscal implications of aging, there are two main findings: First, saving rates could increase and not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976226
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Do Remittances Have a Flip Side? A General Equilibrium Analysis of Remittances, Labor Supply Responses, and Policy Options for Jamaica
Bussolo, Maurizio - 2016
Econometric analysis has established a negative relationship between labor supply and remittances in Jamaica. The authors incorporate this ex-post evidence in a general equilibrium model to investigate economywide effects of increased remittance inflows. In this model, remittances reduce labor...
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The Patterns and Determinants of Household Welfare Growth in Jordan : 2002-2010
Mansour, Wael - 2017
Jordan's economic growth in the past decade has translated into a significant rise in household consumption and a … disparities. Using official household expenditure surveys for 2002, 2008, and 2010, this paper analyzes the patterns and … determinants of household welfare growth and examines the extent to which economic growth has been inclusive of the more vulnerable …
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Free Primary Education, Fertility, and Women's Access to the Labor Market : Evidence from Ethiopia
Chicoine, Luke - 2020
This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation generated by the removal of school fees in Ethiopia. The increase in schooling caused by the reform is identified using both geographic variation in the intensity of its impact and...
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Combining Growth and Gender Diagnostics for the Benefit of Both
Ianchovichina, Elena - 2019
Women's economic empowerment is not a new issue; nevertheless, it continues to challenge governments and development assistance agencies. One of the reasons for this hurdle may well be that gender advocates and growth devotees are speaking different languages when there is a huge space for them...
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