Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why … did this occur? We look at the four standard explanations: that more women in rural areas are now pursuing higher … there is a tendency for women to withdraw from the labor force to attend to domestic duties (income effect), that employment …

probit regressions based on repeated cross sections of the Philippine Labor Force Survey indicate that both men and women … to wage employment, women lost job opportunities in wage- and self-employment, and they experienced increases in unpaid … family work. Real wages fell for men and women, with much of the decline at the upper tails of the wage distribution. If one …

This paper includes information on some of the current issues faced by women in civil aviation. Through a sectoral … gender lens, it examines employment, women's career cycles and the main decent work opportunities and challenges in the … sector. It also identifies ways of accelerating the achievement of gender equality. Progress for women in the world of work …

This paper includes information on some of the current issues faced by women in civil aviation. Through a sectoral … gender lens, it examines employment, women's career cycles and the main decent work opportunities and challenges in the … sector. It also identifies ways of accelerating the achievement of gender equality. Progress for women in the world of work …

There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely … to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare …

Dominant development policy approaches recommend women's employment on the grounds that it facilitates their … empowerment, which in turn is believed to be instrumental in enhancing women's well-being. However, empirical work on the … relationship between women's employment status and their well-being as measured by freedom from marital violence yields an …

This paper shows that participation in a community-level female empowerment program in India significantly increases … primary data to disentangle the program's mechanisms, separately considering its effect on women who work, and those who do …-participants relative to women in untreated districts. …

migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double disadvantage. In both …

(CDDP), which is dedicated to the improvement of the Irula tribe in rural villages of southeast India. The Irulas specialize …, factory training, production, women's micro-credit collectives, distribution and project evalua-tion. The case focuses on the …

In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large … random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed … survey data. We find more patient choices among women who have a higher number of children. The age of children matters: The …