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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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Essays on women's empowerment in developing countries
Lenze, Jana - 2019
Women’s empowerment has been identified as a prerequisite for poverty reduction. In addition to driving overall economic growth, women’s empowerment has been found to have beneficial effects on fertility rates, child health and education outcomes, as well as community development. This...
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What Drives Female Labor Force Participation? Comparable Micro-Level Evidence from Eight Developing and Emerging Economies
Klasen, Stephan - 2019
middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to …, Vietnam, and Tanzania). Overall, the economic, social, and institutional constraints that shape women's labor force …
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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
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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
middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to …, Vietnam, and Tanzania). Overall, the economic, social, and institutional constraints that shape women's labor force …
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
middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to …, Vietnam, and Tanzania). Overall, the economic, social, and institutional constraints that shape women's labor force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011888643
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Economic development, structural change and women's labor force participation : a reexamination of the feminization U hypothesis
Gaddis, Isis; Klasen, Stephan - 2011
A large literature claims that female labor force participation (FLFP) follows a U-shaped trend over the course of economic development. This feminization U hypothesis is motivated by secular patterns of structural change in combination with education and fertility dynamics. We show that...
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Women and development
King, Elizabeth M.; Klasen, Stephan; Porter, Maria - In: Global crises, global solutions, (pp. 585-637). 2009
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Economic development, structural change, and women's labor force participation : a reexamination of the feminization U hypothesis
Gaddis, Isis; Klasen, Stephan - In: Journal of population economics 27 (2014) 3, pp. 639-681
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The roots of female emancipation : from perennial cool water via pre-industrial late marriages to postindustrial gender equality
Santos Silva, Manuel; Alexander, Amy C.; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2017 - This version: November 2017
Reviewing the burgeoning literature on the deep historic roots of gender inequality, we theorize and provide evidence for an overlooked trajectory that (1) originates in a climatic configuration called the "Cool Water" (CW-) condition, from where the trajectory leads to (2) late female marriages...
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