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Documentation of women's work in Nigeria: problems and solutions.
R, Pittin - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1982
ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on data collecting problems regarding the income generating activities and economic role of Hausa Islamic women in Katsina, Nigeria - finds homemaker tasks and family household production to have been ignored or submerged in historical and current censuses, due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966939
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The impact of transition and the Afghanistan crisis on employment and decent work concerns in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
Pickup, Francine - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2003
Examines the employment situation in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, focusing on the effects of events in neighbouring Afghanistan. Highlights the impact of radical Islamic groups, drug production and trade, migration and refugee movements, trade restrictions and increased external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966961
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Female labour force participation in the hashemite kingdom of Jordan.
Gbs, Mujahid - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1982
ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on woman worker labour force participation in Jordan - discusses occupational structure, analyses the impact of cultural factors, marital status, educational level, family size, husband's occupation, urbanization and rural migration, provides comparisons with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010967122
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Examination of the literature on jordanian women.
O, Dahhan - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1980
ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper comprising a literature survey of the social role of women in Jordan - discusses islamic influences on marriage, responsibilitys and decision making, woman worker employment, clan family structure and religious practice, presents folklore interpretations of female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010967468
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Philosophical and spiritual perspectives on decent work
Peccoud, Dominique - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2004
Reflects on the values behind the ILO's Decent Work Agenda and provides a forum for contributors from various humanistic, philosophical, spiritual and religious traditions to express their views on the significance of work at all levels of society, from the individual person to the global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010681389
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HOW DO WORLD AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY PRICE SPIKES AFFECT THE INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN ISRAEL?
Grethe, Harald; Siddig, Khalid H.A.; Goetz, Linde; … - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2012
We assess the distributional effects of the transmission of world market price shocks for the highly import dependent economy of Israel. We combine a CGE simulation with an empirical cointegration analysis for assessing the direction and extent of the connectedness of Israeli and world market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010920652
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Democracy and countries with Muslim majorities: a reply and update
Potrafke, Niklas - In: Public Choice 154 (2013) 3, pp. 323-332
past empirical results on the relation between Islam and democracy. In his comment on my study, Hanusch indicates that he … conclusion by excluding the heartland of Islam from the estimation sample. For his estimates, Hanusch moreover uses data that do … Islam. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987963
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Islam and democracy: a response
Hanusch, Marek - In: Public Choice 154 (2013) 3, pp. 315-321
studies have traced this to the allegedly repressive nature of Islam. This article replicates the most recent study on this … effect between Islam and democracy is spurious. There is no causal relationship between Islam and democracy. Copyright …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010988241
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The potential conflict between traditional perceptions and environmental behavior: compost use by Muslim farmers
Paz, Shlomit; Ayalon, Ofira; Haj, Areej - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 15 (2013) 4, pp. 967-978
Muslim farmers expressed willingness to use compost if it was proved to be pure according to Islam, this paper addresses how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010997143
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Radical Islamic Militancy and Acts of Terrorism: A Quality-of-Life Analysis
Estes, Richard; Sirgy, M. - In: Social Indicators Research 117 (2014) 2, pp. 615-652
Horrific acts of terrorism have emerged as defining features of Islamic–Western relations throughout much of this still young century. Arising from decades, indeed centuries, of mutual distrust contemporary patterns of radicalized Islamic terrorism toward the West are rooted in their shared...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010999409