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, the fact that women are increasingly called on to find extra income has implications on their family lives …(english) Women’s disadvantaged position in the labour market can be explained by conflicts between their roles in … increased women’s role in household survival strategies, but their participation does not have the same sociological meaning in …
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certain sectors and jobs were required to leave their jobs once they married. The majority of women affected by this "Marriage … compare the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were required to leave employment on marriage because of the …This paper investigates the relationship between maternal employment and child outcomes using micro-data collected in …
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builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women's employment in MENA. Besides examining how different … in the extent to which self-employment after marriage is available to women to compensate for the reduction in wage …Marriage is a central stage in the transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This paper …
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the birth of a child. Our setting enables us to examine the effect of family policies in a region with patriarchal gender … norms with respect to housework, where women were the main providers of care within the household, but egalitarian gender … norms with respect to the labor market, where most women participated in the labor market full-time. Patriarchal gender …
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Violence against women is persisting in many parts of the world. At the same time, there is a global trend of increased … that the work program leads to more violence against women. We argue that the effect could be explained by a "male backlash …" mechanism, where husbands exercise violence to regain power within marriage. …
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Indian women, we investigate how this link varies by their class and socio-religious identities. Treating women's employment …Intimate partner violence is a serious form of unfreedom inflicted on women across the world. How does the incidence of … such violence vary with women's workforce participation - a factor that is supposed to enhance their economic well …
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This project is the result of a search on labour market participation of Swiss married women. We want to analyze why … most of these women are part of the labor force. The result is that most of the examined women are not part of the Swiss …
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Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
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certain sectors and jobs were required to leave their jobs once they married. The majority of women affected by this "Marriage … compare the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were required to leave employment on marriage because of the …This paper investigates the relationship between maternal employment and child outcomes using micro-data collected in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945225
This paper considers the relationship between work status and decision-making power of the head of household and his spouse. I use household fixed effects models to address the possibility that spousal work status may be correlated with unobserved factors that also affect bargaining power within...
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