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Children, Kitchen, Church : Does Ethnicity Matter?
Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2007
Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those …
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Women's mobility and labor supply : experimental evidence from Pakistan
Field, Erica Marie; Vyborny, Kate - 2022
In cities with conservative norms or high crime, female workers may face greater restrictions on their, physical 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013185231
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Husbands' and wives' diverging perceptions on who decides
Schwefer, Maximilian; Poutvaara, Panu - 2018
An emerging literature highlights the importance of empowering women. Female decision-making power is typically measured by surveying only one partner, but the few studies surveying both have documented large differences in perceptions. We analyze these perceptions and their consequences, using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962355
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Measuring women's economic empowerment : time use data and gender inequality
Ferrant, Gaëlle; Thim, Annelise - 2019
Goals, drawing on learning from the Social Institutions and Gender Index and in-country research by the OECD Policy Dialogue … tasks more equally between men and women by transforming gender stereotypes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060837
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Time allocation of daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law in India : the role of education as bargaining power
Bhattacharya, Leena - 2023
state of residence. Overall, the results suggest that policies that aim to increase women's education and promote gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014432205
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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women : as immigration lowers childcare and housework costs, nativie-born women alter their work and fertility decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2015
particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430557
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The effect of alimony reform on married women's labor supply: evidence from the American Time Use Survey
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer - 2021
Reforms that reduce alimony can affect married couples in two different ways. First, reduced alimony lowers the bargaining power of the payee, usually the wife. Second, reduced alimony lowers the incentives of wives to engage in the traditional male breadwinner model of household specialization....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800558
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Gender and social mobility : exploring gender attitudes and women's labour force participation
Luke, Nancy - 2019
intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes and norms as determinants of women's labour force participation in industrialized … countries. This paper discusses the measurement of gender attitudes and reviews research findings. Studies reveal that gender …. Mothers' egalitarian views and less-restrictive gender norms promote greater labour force participation for daughters and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161273
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Body-weight and women's hours of work : more evidence that marriage markets matter
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2017
Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets. To the extent that it is associated with lower prospects of being in couple and obtaining intra-couple transfers, we expect that higher BMI will increase willingness to supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664273
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Gendered impacts of COVID-19 in developing countries
Alon, Titan; Doepke, Matthias; Manysheva, Kristina; … - 2022
In many high-income economies, the recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented declines in women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a specific focus on Nigeria, the most populous country in...
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