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usually end up joining the informal labour force. Qualitative evidence reveals that displaced women are better suited to … power within the household. Our results show that female displaced women work longer hours, earn similar wages and … contribute in larger proportions to household earnings relative to rural women who remain in rural areas. However, as measured by …
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In this paper, we explore the links between polygyny and female labour supply in Senegal using a nationally representative survey. In a reduced-form approach, we first measure the impact of polygyny on participation using a joint model of spouse participation. The identification of the impact of...
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Billions of women still face legal barriers to economic inclusion, yet it is unclear whether lifting these barriers is … - the lifting of the Saudi women's driving ban - on women's employment by randomizing rationed spaces in driver's training …. Two years later, women in the treatment group are 61% more likely to drive, 19% more likely to leave the house …
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This study investigates the extent and speed of dynamic adjustment of labour supply to changes in labour demand, government policies and autonomous trends. We estimate error-correction models (ECMs) for male and female participation rates in the Netherlands between 1969 and 2004. The results...
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