Showing 1 - 10 of 599
This research explores the long-term equilibrium relationship between unemployment and labour force participation rates for six selected countries in Latin America at both aggregate and gender-disaggregated levels. Cointegration analysis focused on the study of time series is used to validate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013546014
This study aims to investigate the qualitative analysis of the positive and negative effects of globalization on women in Bangladesh. While globalization has led to significant changes in the world economy, it has also altered in important ways the productive relations in developing countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081663
This study aims to investigate an extensive evaluation of the relationship between economic globalization and women's economic empowerment in Bangladesh. Using time-series data from 1975 to 2017, the study uses the female labor force participation rate (FLFPR), an indicator of women's economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081916
In many economic models a central variable of interest is lifetime or permanent income which is not observed in survey data sets and typically proxied by annual income information. To assess the quality of such approximations, we use a unique source of lifetime earnings - the German pension...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824741
When other measures for economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, the body mass index (BMI) is a biological measure that reflects current net nutrition. This study uses a difference-in-decompositions framework to analyze how women's BMIs varied with the advent of early 20th century social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843424
When other measures for material conditions are scarce or unreliable, the use of height is now common to evaluate economic conditions during economic development. However, throughout US economic development, height data by gender have been slow to emerge. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299522
In many economic models a central variable of interest is lifetime or permanent income which is not observed in survey data sets and typically proxied by annual income information. To assess the quality of such approximations, we use a unique source of lifetime earnings - the German pension...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014209199
This research explores the long-term equilibrium relationship between unemployment and labour force participation rates for six selected countries in Latin America at both aggregate and gender-disaggregated levels. Cointegration analysis focused on the study of time series is used to validate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014636663
Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why did this occur? We look at the four standard explanations: that more women in rural areas are now pursuing higher education and are therefore not available for work (education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293542
We investigate why female labour market participation is low in the Arab region. Utilising Akerlof and Kranton's (2000) identity economics approach, we show in a simple gametheoretic framework that women socialised in a traditional family environment violate their identities by taking a job. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294358