Based on in-depth interviews with 18 women and a survey of 98 other low income women which were carried out in 1981. Finds that women heads of households are not necessarily economically disadvantaged and suggests that women may be heads of households by choice.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on migration in and from Swaziland - presents the results of 1976-77 surveys of internal migration, emigration and attitudes and behaviour of migrant workers in South Africa R, etc., makes economic policy and social policy recommendations, and forms part of a WEP...

La procrastination du consommateur est émergée comme facteur individuel de cause du report d’achat. Cet article analyse la procrastination du consommateur au moyen d’un carré sémiotique, positionne la procrastination par rapport à l’impulsivité et la compulsivité, et en propose une...

Consumer procrastination has ermerged as important individual variable along multiple situational variables to explain purchase delay. This article provides an analysis of consumer procrastination using a semiotic approach. It clarifies the differences with other deviant behaviors such as...

The goal of our research is to offer a new approach of the self-gift act by extending the application of self-regulatory theory in consumer research. To achieve this, the measurement tool of regulatory focus has been validated in a French context and an experiment has been realised. Evidence was...

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper on implications of rural area labour market characteristics for child labour and fertility behaviour in South East Asia, esp. Bangladesh - illustrates, with a village case study, the impact of wage rates, seasonal unemployment, nonfarm employment employment...