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Growth and jobs in an adjusting economy : explaining the decline in Indian manufacturing employment in the 1980s
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 1996
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The Impact of Economic Liberalization on Employment and Wages in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2007
when opening to trade and foreign direct investment on employment, income distribution, and poverty. The first phase of the … liberalization focusing on employment, unemployment, wages, productivity, and work conditions that are related to trends in … productivity. Overall, the effect of economic liberalization in India seems to have been better than in other countries …
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Intrahousehold resource allocation in rural Pakistan : a semiparametric analysis
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - In: Journal of applied econometrics 13 (1998) 5, pp. 463-480
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Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Rural Pakistan : A Semi-Parametric Analysis
Attfield, Clifford; Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2008
We estimate semiparametric Engel curves for rural Pakistan using a large household survey. This allows us to obtain consistent estimates of the effects of household size and composition on consumption patterns even when these demographic variables are correlated with an unknown function of...
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Intrahousehold resource allocation in rural Pakistan : a semiparametric analysis
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Attfield, Clifford L. F. - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000983324
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The rise in women's labour force participation in Mexico : supply vs demand factors
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021
We estimate the relative importance of alternative labour supply and demand mechanisms in explaining the rise of female labour force participation over the last 55 years in Mexico. The growth of female labour force participation in Mexico between 1960 and 2015 followed an S-shape, with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422678
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Women's careers and family formation
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Walther, Selma - 2022
employee retention, staff engagement, job complementarities, coworkers, hospitals, endogeneityAThis paper discusses research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys methods used to obtain causal identification, and provides an overview of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013415649
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Women's careers and family formation
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Walther, Selma - 2022
This paper discusses research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys methods used to obtain causal identification, and provides an overview of the evidence of causal effects in both directions. We highlight a few themes that we regard as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013282876
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Welfare implications of fiscal reform: The case of food subsidies in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2002
This paper investigates the effect of a food subsidy programme in India on child malnutrition by addressing the … respect to the unusually high incidence of malnutrition in India, and they are topical in the context of current and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279140
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Health and the political agency of women
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma - 2011
We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286864