policy insights. This paper first describes key employment trends in India by gender. Then the potential determinants of …The low and declining female labour force participation rate in India despite strong growth over the past decade is … inclusive growth, and wellbeing. Assessing determinants of the labour force participation of women in India can open important …

and especially for women. <P>Specific gender policies will be needed to enlarge economic opportunities for women and to … policies. More and better jobs for women in India could raise growth by about 2 percentage points a year over time. This … Working Paper relates to the 2014 OECD Economic Survey of India (http://www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-india …

This paper examines the nature and determinants of female entrepreneurship in India based on survey data. The first … part assesses basic characteristics of female entrepreneurship in India, while the subsequent sections analyse key … determinants of female entrepreneurship based on the literature, and test their importance at the state level in India with the …

regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman … margin in India where a substantial number of incumbents do not contest re-election. There is no significant entry of new …

cited explanations of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests the labour market … explanation for India using household survey data collected in urban Uttar Pradesh in 1995. It estimates workforce participation …. Using the Blinder-Oaxaca method, the gross gender difference in earnings is decomposed into the part that is explained by …

In this study we use data from rural India to examine the impact of the birth of a boy relative to the birth of a girl … (i.e., the "gender shock") on the savings, consumption and income of rural Indian households. We find that the gender … subsequent to the gender shock arises from its effect on consumption in the year following the birth, and from its effect on …

India is the global epicentre of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Asia. Previous research indicates that the majority of HIV …-positive women in India were infected by their husbands, their only sexual partner, which makes them difficult to identify as a high …-risk population. This paper assesses social factors associated with the transmission of HIV based on demographic determinants, such as …

This paper analyzes the evolution of gender segregation in Spanish labour market between 1996 and 2010, with particular … regional segregation, as well as a different gender contribution to explain the evolution of segregation. …

only for academics but also for institutions concerned with inequalities related to gender, race, ethnicity, and migration …