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Women in emerging Asia : welfare, employment, and human development
Bardhan, Kalpana; Klasen, Stephan - In: Asian development review 16 (1998) 1, pp. 72-125
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What Drives Female Labor Force Participation? Comparable Micro-Level Evidence from Eight Developing and Emerging Economies
Klasen, Stephan - 2019
We investigate the micro-level determinants of labor force participation of urban married women in eight low- and middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to understand what drives changes and differences in participation...
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What drives female labour force participation? : comparable micro-level evidence from eight developing and emerging economies
Klasen, Stephan; Tu Thi Ngoc Le; Pieters, Janneke; … - In: The journal of development studies 57 (2021) 3, pp. 417-442
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012483731
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What drives female labor force participation? : comparable micro-level evidence from eight developing and emerging economies
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2019
We investigate the micro-level determinants of labor force participation of urban married women in eight low- and middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to understand what drives changes and differences in participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011964886
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What drives female labor force participation? : comparable micro-level evidence from eight developing and emerging economies
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2018 - This version: August 19, 2018
We investigate the micro-level determinants of labor force participation of urban married women in eight low- and middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to understand what drives changes and differences in participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011888643
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How narrowly should anti-poverty programs be targeted? : simulation evidence from Bolivia and Indonesia
Klasen, Stephan; Lange, Simon - 2016
A key question in the design of anti-poverty programs is to what extent they should be targeted. Empirical evaluations of targeted transfer schemes and simulation exercises often point to further gains that can be had from targeted transfers vis-à-vis universal transfers or from more narrow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523309
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A feminization of vulnerability? : female headship, poverty, and vulnerability in Thailand and Vietnam
Klasen, Stephan; Lechtenfeld, Tobias; Povel, Felix - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 71 (2015), pp. 36-53
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432055
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Labor savings in agriculture and inequality at different spatial scales : the expansion of oil palm in Indonesia
Kubitza, Christoph; Dib, Jonida Bou; Kopp, Thomas; … - 2019
Abstract: Labor saving innovations are essential to increase agricultural productivity, but they might also increase inequality through displacing labor. Empirical evidence on such labor displacements is limited. This study uses representative data at local and national scales to analyze labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994295
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Essays on comparing poverty measures, gender differences in subjective well-being, food Insecurity and malnutrition in Pakistan
Mahmood, Tahir - 2018
und Unterernährung in Pakistan. Alle Arbeiten verwenden aktuelle Methoden und Ansätze der einschlägigen Literatur und … malnutrition in Pakistan. All papers use current methods and approaches of the relevant literature and some extend the applied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167079
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An Asian Poverty Line? Issues and Options
Klasen, Stephan - 2017
Given Asia's record of rapid economic growth and the conceptual and empirical problems of the current international … income poverty line (“dollar-a-day”), this paper discusses whether there is merit to develop an Asia-specific poverty line … that addresses some of the shortcomings of the dollar-a-day line and additionally considers Asia's particular economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966487