We study the labour market dynamics of men and women in El Salvador and Nicaragua, focusing on the factors that help … men and women move into an advantageous labour market state from an unfavourable state. We consider 'advantageous' states …

Estimated labor force participation rates among free women in the pre-Civil War period were exceedingly low. This is … due, in part, to cultural or societal expectations of the role of women and the lack of thorough enumeration by Census … takers. This paper develops an augmented labor force participation rate for free women in 1860 and compares it with the …

Estimated labor force participation rates among free women in the pre-Civil War period were exceedingly low. This is … due, in part, to cultural or societal expectations of the role of women and the lack of thorough enumeration by Census … takers. This paper develops an augmented labor force participation rate for free women in 1860 and compares it with the …

of women on research grounds. Therefore, in current research, the relationship between employment and empowerment is … working environment at the communal level. Moreover, women’s access toward resources and contribution level to the accumulated … collected from four districts of Punjab, Pakistan through a multistage random sampling technique. In this study, four indicators …

mobility. This limits women’s labor market opportunities and the pool of workers that firms, can attract. In this study, we … experimentally vary access to a transport service in Lahore, Pakistan, to, quantify the overall impact of transport to work on men …, women, and the differential impact of, transport exclusively for women. We show that reducing physical mobility constraints …