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One of every nine women in the United States (11.8 percent in 2013) is represented by a union at her place of work. The … annual number of hours of paid work performed by women has increased dramatically over the last four decades. In 1979, the …, women's share of unpaid care work and housework has remained high. Various time-use studies conclude that women continue to …
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This paper deals with the integration of gender in policies relating to information and communication technology to … empower socially excluded poor women as producers of this technology. In this context, this paper examines an interventionist … ICT policy undertaken by Kudumbasree (an innovative women based participatory programme) to empower poor women .The …
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those in the private sector. Gender wage gap in Indonesia is mainly due to gender discrimination. An act to equalize …
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This paper studies gender differences in the elasticity of labor supply in a model of household specialization. I show …. Quantitatively, empirical time-use ratios alone imply differences in the Frisch elasticity between women and men of more than 50 …
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This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...
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This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359856
growth was rapid, it was not enough to produce greater gender equality. A concentration of women in mobile export industries … effects on growth and well- being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example … that face severe competition from other low-wage countries reduces their bargaining power and inhibits closure of gender …
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This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010617670
problem of gender gap as well as employment of migrants …
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This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371670