This paper analyses the job choice decision of married women in rural India as a joint decision between spouses in a household. Two models of labour participation are estimated: the first defines work only as market wage labour and the second defines work broadly to include wage and self...

The major paradigms of the development discourse have recently incorporated the language of rights. To move from the rhetoric of human rights to concretely elaborate the content of rights for informal workers, particularly women, in Asia is the purpose of this paper. Using a rights-based...