Women fulfil a wide variety of roles on farms - farm manager, household manager, other family member work-ing on the … farm, partner, mother, cook, carer and many more. The majority of the women interviewed experience this variety of roles as …, long distances in rural areas and little free time are aggravating factors for many women. Despite their high motivation to …

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

ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to increase effort, even when controlling …

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 …

This study examines the role of women’s intra-household status relative to men in children’s food security in Pakistan … women’s intra-household status and children’s food security. …

In the period from 1970 to 2002, Norwegian women moved out of the home and into the paid labour market. The paper … investigates the e®ect of this social change on women's economic position and on individual income in-equality. It argues that the … Statistics Norway in the period, giving reliable data on income for samples varying from 6000 to 30 000 women and men. Women …

confined to men. In particular, administrative data from public pension systems are less reliable for women because of the … analyze a large data set from the German public pension scheme on women who died between 1994 and 2005, employing both non …-parametric and parametric methods. To overcome the problem mentioned above we concentrate on women with relatively long earnings …

tendency of women to start businesses in the service sector, which is underrepresented in the crafts. Women also tend to be … women to care for children and actively participate in the labor force at the same time. On the other, incomes are generally … lower. Women are more risk averse and tend to be more cautious in their entrepreneurial endeavors. They are more likely to …

Despite a steady increase in the number of self-employed women, the so-called gender gap has hardly diminished. Based …-induced employment breaks - which from a theoretical perspective go along with a loss of human capital - explain women's lower start …

activities. Women are relatively often and foreigners rarely represented in the start-up actvities of the service sector. …