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We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between …
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among children in India, that gender bias in mortality is larger in Sub‐Saharan Africa than in China and India, and that …
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We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010688399
In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …
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Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this paper we first show that the direction of the bias...
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The excess female mortality in India and other South Asian countries is no longer contentious. Less known are the …
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We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329060
among children in India, that gender bias in mortality is larger in Sub‐Saharan Africa than in China and India, and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329926
We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330026
The 'missing women' dilemma in India has sparked interest in investigating gender discrimination in the provision of …
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