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The gender wage gap in the agricultural labor market is observed in all the states of India. This paper will try to … identify possible policies which can reduce this gender wise wage discrimination in agricultural labor market. We consider the … period between 2010-11 to 2015-16 and 18 major states of India. The possible factors which can create an impact on gender …
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The present study contributes to the limited literature on the interlinkage between household non-farm diversification, agricultural feminization and female autonomy in farming. The study uses unit level data from the India Human Development Survey for the years 2004-05 and 2011-12. The paper...
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estimate the effect of India’s Green Revolution on the gender wage gap in village labor markets. Widely considered the country … and losers, and offers an example of productivity growth that exacerbated gender disparities …
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This paper studies the impact of services liberalization on education and the gender education gap at the district … number of years of schooling (positively) and the gender education gap (negatively). These effects are at least as relevant …
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other traits, such as gender? We answer this question by examining the impact of a successful school-expansion program on … prioritization of leader competence over gender, boosting the share of women among candidates and state parliamentarians and the …
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sex in order to analyze the gender of debt and its interplay with caste and poverty, based on descriptive statistics and … women's behavior is constrained by family affiliation, poverty level and caste, all of which affects men much less. Last, in …, likely to strengthen the association between debt and poverty for women, and in particular to exacerbate female …
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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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The paper examines the short-term implications of urbanization on women empowerment in India. In theory, urbanization can affect women either positively or negatively. Women in urban areas, compared to their rural counterparts, are thought to enjoy greater social, economic, and political...
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other traits, such as gender? We answer this question by examining the impact of a successful school-expansion program on … prioritization of leader competence over gender, boosting the share of women among candidates and state parliamentarians and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469696