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We examine the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk, the …
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Economic violence represents a state of control over an individual capacity to obtain, utilize and keep up economic assets. The current study investigates the prevalence of economic violence among women of the socioeconomically backward Muslim minority community by taking a sample of 387 women...
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gender and needs commensurate interventions. …
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documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …
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poor youths in India, focusing on two dimensions of individuals' identity: caste and gender. Our empirical findings suggest … skills. Individual-level and household-level factors mediate some of the aspiration gaps based on caste and gender. We find … evidence that for SC/ST female participants, the disadvantages on both caste and gender dimensions add up; this is reflected in …
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This paper investigates the role of social identity, namely gender and caste of individuals, in stream choice at the …’s education significantly explain some portion of the caste-based gaps, but they do not explain the gender gap that persists even … in an intra-household comparison. We also test for the intersectionality of the overlapping identities of gender and …
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This paper aims to examine the effectiveness of gender diverse boards on financial performance in large listed Indian … companies by taking a resource dependency perspective. Gender diverse board is measured by presence of the independent female … assess the proposed relationship. The analysis confirms that independent gender diverse boards significantly affect financial …
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institutionalization and homelessness, especially among men and as a result there are stark gender ratio imbalances among this population …. We speculate that this gender imbalance may play a role in excess female mortality in addition to several other …
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This paper investigates the role of social identity, namely gender and caste of individuals, in stream choice at the …’s education significantly explain some portion of the caste-based gaps, but they do not explain the gender gap that persists even … in an intra-household comparison. We also test for the intersectionality of the overlapping identities of gender and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596031
poor youths in India, focusing on two dimensions of individuals' identity: caste and gender. Our empirical findings suggest … skills. Individual-level and household-level factors mediate some of the aspiration gaps based on caste and gender. We find … evidence that for SC/ST female participants, the disadvantages on both caste and gender dimensions add up; this is reflected in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389396