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choose "die" most people chose to be with the majority. Both men and women tended to make this mistake, but women …
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We examine levels and trends of labor market outcomes for women in the 1990’s using household survey data for 18 Latin … distribution of employment of women across sectors of the economy (formal versus informal) and across industries (agriculture … versus non-agriculture), unemployment, and earnings. Overall we document substantial progress made by women in many areas …
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These Explorations argue that more links between the fields of feminist ecology and feminist economics are both needed and promising, and presents new, boundary-crossing research in this area. It brings together contributions from various regions in the world that link political action and...
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of an expert working group on child care. As Ireland has broken into the ranks of wealthy Western economies, Irish women … have joined the formal workforce in ever greater numbers, dramatically breaking the traditional ideology of women as … childbearers and homemakers. However, women are now carrying the double burden of work that accompanies the lack of any state …
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Neoclassical economists posit a set of stylized facts which mark the structural transformation of national economies. Yet these facts, when disaggregated by gender, exhibit puzzling anomalies. For the 132 countries in our sample, female rates of economic activity are much lower than men's, and...
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women as holders of secondary, or indirect, rights to land must be supplemented by a more nuanced understanding of tenure …. Women's rights are in fact considerably more complex than the simple right to fields from their husbands. First, women …'s rights to property obtained from men may be coupled with other rights and obligations. In many ethnic groups, women have …
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Barbara Bergmann has advocated direct observation of market behavior by economists. There is a history of such activity in the area of labor market but that experimental work has mainly been conducted by noneconomists. We have followed the lead of these researchers and conducted audits of...
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Results from this cross-country study indicate that there are no simple patterns in how investment in schooling in the MENA countries differs from international experience. The regression results for 1965 and for 1994 show a wide diversity in enrollments at the primary and secondary school...
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