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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 …
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migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double disadvantage. In both …
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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 …
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The 'missing women' dilemma in India has sparked interest in investigating gender discrimination in the provision of …
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We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … in women's political representation results in a 1.5 percentage point reduction in neonatal mortality. Women politicians …
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Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women may contribute …
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minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 …
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This is a brief sketch of the Self Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA) threedecade- long journey from the local to … global and informal to formal sector in search of finding work and income for now 720,000 women workers. Though SEWA remains …
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This study examines how, why, and under what conditions marginalized women of customary communities can contribute and … resources creates a structure that divides labour and situates women within a particular set of socio-economic roles in the … identity, territory, and preservation of customary forests. On the downside, marginalized indigenous women who are involved in …
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We analyze the determinants of female labor market participation for different age-groups in the European Union. We show that female participation is positively affected by tertiary education at any age. But upper secondary education increases participation only up to an age of 40 while after...
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