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, the fact that women are increasingly called on to find extra income has implications on their family lives …(english) Women’s disadvantaged position in the labour market can be explained by conflicts between their roles in … increased women’s role in household survival strategies, but their participation does not have the same sociological meaning in …
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Working paper reporting on the impact of the education of women, migration and employment on social roles and social … status of Ghanaian women. Based on 60 interviews, covers women workers, rural women, marriage, maternity and fertility trends …, family and child-rearing roles, birth control, abortion and cultural factors. Bibliography and tables. …
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influences on marriage, responsibilitys and decision making, woman worker employment, clan family structure and religious …ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper comprising a literature survey of the social role of women in Jordan - discusses islamic … practice, presents folklore interpretations of female social roles, and comments on women's legal status and legislation as …
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The women labor force participation rate has been increasing in the Togolese society where the Christian and Animist … religions are dominant. However, women work mainly in the informal sector with trade being the major occupation. The significant … participation of women in economic life probably impacts other aspects of their life, notably their reproduction. In fact, women …
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Although there are numerous studies of the dowry phenonmenon in India, research pertaining to the custom in the rest of South Asia is sparse. The aim of this paper is to study dowry payments in Pakistan. Several interpretations for dowry are distinguished using a simple theoretical framework and...
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model of the marriage market, in which there are gains to assortative matching and women may leave the marriage market at a … frictions to aggregate marriage behavior in 18th century Quebec. The reduced form estimates show that a simple random matching … higher rate than men, can explain these data. The estimates also show that the marriage market was segmented by social status …
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distinct phenotypes: Caucasian, mestizo and indigenous. We also randomly vary marital status across gender and phenotype. Hence … indigenous-looking women. We did not find an effect of marital status on males. …
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Although there are numerous studies of the dowry phenomenon in India, research pertaining to the custom in the rest of South Asia is sparse.The aim of this paper is to study dowry payments in Pakistan.Several interpretations for dowry are distinguished using a simple theoretical framework and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011091513
This paper considers the relationship between work status and decision-making power of the head of household and his spouse. I use household fixed effects models to address the possibility that spousal work status may be correlated with unobserved factors that also affect bargaining power within...
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young women's employment. Specifically, the following questions were addressed, in the context of Kerala: Which young women … determinant of employment, and to what degree does this relationship differ for married and single women? Data for this study come … U-shaped relationship between household economic status (or class status) and women's current employment status. This is …
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