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-level modeling techniques, this paper explores the macro-level determinants of the gender poverty gap in the ten post … poverty gap in Central and Eastern Europe, while generous welfare policies, specifically higher levels of spending on pensions …
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paper, we further examine the presence of poverty-based asymmetries in the unpaid work time changes of men and women given … that the role of household production as a coping mechanism may vary by poverty status. We use the 2003-12 American Time …. Our findings reveal that the changes in men's and women's unpaid work time indeed varied by poverty status. In particular …
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Poverty status is an important factor influencing household production and the unpaid work time associated with it due …, we examine the presence of poverty-based asymmetries in the unpaid work time changes of men and women during the Great … Recession. Using the 2003-12 American Time Use Survey, we find that these changes indeed varied by poverty status. In particular …
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Women are more likely than men to work in the informal sector and to drop out of the labor force for a time, such as after childbirth, and to be impeded by social norms from working in the formal sector. This work pattern undermines productivity, increases women's vulnerability to income shocks,...
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Women in developing countries face challenges in terms of managing their menstrual hygiene. Oftentimes they do not possess the right means nor materials nor have access to the right facilities. Using a newly released dataset for Burkina Faso and propensity score matching, we provide for the...
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The study examines the nature and extent of time poverty experienced by men and women in subsistence households in …% of men face time constraints. Women's time poverty worsens when the burden of simultaneous care work is taken into … determinants of time poverty show that measures of bargaining power like assets and education do not necessarily affect time …
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This paper sets out to investigate the wellbeing of women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It undertakes spatial and temporal comparisons of women's wellbeing using data from the Demographic and Health Survey and the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey. Using the multidimensional...
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poverty. It is based on the findings of primary fieldwork on the char islands of north-west Bangladesh, investigating the … poor women to achieve their future strategic gender needs should not be underestimated. -- extreme poverty ; asset transfer …
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measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources the study relies on collective Engel curves …. For the poverty analysis, we propose a fuzzy intrahousehold index which is less sensitive to small changes around the … poverty line compared to standard FGT indices and produce more reliable results. This provides an interesting approach to …
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While women's labor force participation tends to increase with economic development, the relationship is not straightforward or consistent at the country level. There is considerably more variation across developing countries in labor force participation by women than by men. This variation is...
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