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To achieve the poverty reduction goal, HIPC countries need to mainstream gender considerations into their PRSPs (poverty reduction strategy papers). Mounting worldwide evidence that greater gender equality correlates with high economic growth and less poverty means that to succeed, poverty...
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Married women in the United States are increasingly integral to their families' economic wellbeing. With two-earner families becoming the norm, little research investigates the role of wives in family income mobility. How much does a wife's labor market activity matter in her family's ability to...
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-monetary activities. Finnish early retirement years are, in many ways, associated with nonpassivity. Those who are prone to active leisure … leisure time as an important determinant of retirement in the first stage estimations, we found interesting characteristics on … leisure time by using the extension of Bordieu’s division of human capital and social classes. The four main categories to …
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This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to suggest that the literature's neglect of Samuelson's...
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Although income inequality has been studied extensively, relatively little attention has been paid to the role of household production. Economic theory predicts that households with less money income will produce more goods at home. Thus extended income, which includes the value of household...
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determination of economic satisfaction and leisure satisfaction. We test some hypotheses, including the hypothesis that leisure … satisfaction depends on both the quantity and quality of leisure-where quality is proxied by good intensiveness and social … intensiveness. Our results show that both the quantity and the quality of leisure are important determinants of leisure satisfaction …
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The pattern of employment among men and women has changed remarkably over the past decades. While the employment rate of women has risen, that of men has continued to decline. Disproportionate growth in the participation in the labor market of women with highincome husbands has heightened...
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This paper discusses the rationale as well as the challenges involved when constructing gender-related indicators of well-being. It argues that such indicators are critically important but that their construction involves a number of conceptual and measurement problems. Among the conceptual...
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Im Bereich der Geschlechterforschung wird eine ungleiche Teilhabe von Männern und Frauen am Arbeitsmarkt beobachtet. Obgleich sich der Anteil der erwerbstätigen Frauen der männlichen Quote annähert, unterscheiden sich weibliche von männlichen Arbeitsformen. Es wird benannt, dass Frauen...
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The adverse distributional effects of a flat tax are well known and have been documented by empirical research in several countries, including Belgium. Advocates of the flat tax argue, correctly, that many of these studies do not take into account agents' behavioural reactions and possible feed...
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