integration measures on gender employment and wages. The study incorporates gender-differentiated employment and wages for … green trade sectors. This is the first major attempt to develop a gender-differentiated data set for South Asian countries …, within the widely used Global Trade Analysis Project framework, to examine the nexus between trade, green economy, and gender …

assistance agencies. One of the reasons for this hurdle may well be that gender advocates and growth devotees are speaking … paper outlines a framework for gender-enhanced growth diagnostics that can be used to identify win-win solutions based on … or that from a pro-gender reform aimed at closing gender gaps. Using Turkey's country growth diagnostics and data on …

several gender-based or gender-related experiments -- a reduction in the cost of child rearing, improved wage equality in the …

-farm employment and continued employment; and conducts the analysis by gender and rural/urban location. A significant share of the …-farm enterprises being more common in Nigeria and Tanzania. The population weighted cross-country gender difference in off …-farm employment and continued employment are country- and gender-specific, with demographic factors, occurrence of shocks, and job …

participation in India; (ii) estimates the extent of the recent decline in female labor force participation; and (iii) examines and …-12. Approximately 53 percent of this drop occurred in rural India, among those ages 15 to 24 years. Factors such as educational …

unique survey of 618 firms in three of the largest cities in the state of Madhya Pradesh (India)?Bhopal, Indore, and Gwalior … employment in urban India is amenable to policy intervention, and that it is not necessary to wait for culture to change …

Empowering women to engage in productive employment is not only critical to achieving gender equality but also critical … for economic growth and poverty reduction. This paper studies the pattern of female activity and gender segmentation in … manufacturing than in services, segmentation based on gender is pervasive in both sectors. Theory, dating back to Gary Becker …

The recent decline in India?s rural female labor force participation is generally attributed to higher rural incomes in … lower, this alleged income effect does not bode well for the empowerment of women as India develops. This paper argues that … misclassification of urban areas as rural, as a result of household surveys lagging behind India?s rapid urbanization process. The …

Female labor force participation rates in urban India between 1987 and 2011 are surprisingly low and have stagnated …

pooled individual-level data for India, the paper compares the age structure and anemia status of women by the sex of their …