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Missing from the market : purdah norm and women's paid work participation in Bangladesh
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2016
participate in paid work than men. Oaxaca decomposition of the gender gap confirms that most of it (i.e. 95%) is unexplained by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596085
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Missing from the market : purdah norm and women's paid work participation in Bangladesh
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2017
participate in paid work than men. Oaxaca decomposition of the gender gap confirms that most of it (i.e. 95%) is unexplained by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110131
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Menstruation hygiene management and work attendance in a developing country
Krenz, Astrid; Strulik, Holger - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951248
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Gendering technological change: evidence from agricultural mechanization
Afridi, Farzana; Bishnu, Monisankar; Mahajan, Kanika - 2020
Technological change in production processes with gendered division of labor across tasks, such as agriculture, can have a differential impact on women's and men's labor. Using exogenous variation in the extent of loamy soil, which is more amenable to deep tillage than clayey soil and therefore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293601
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Is the allocation of time gender sensitive to food price changes? : an investigation of hours of work in Uganda
Campus, Daniela; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2016
explores the nature of time poverty by examining how changes in the prices of the two major staples consumed, matooke and … Uganda National Household Survey by adopting a Tobit-hybrid model. Our results show that gender differentials in the intra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581673
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The gendered effects of climate change: production shocks and labor response in agriculture
Afridi, Farzana; Mahajan, Kanika; Sangwan, Nikita - 2021
gender-differentiated labor impacts of droughts resulting from lower precipitation using unique individual-level panel data … explained by social costs emanating from gender norms that constrain women's access to non-farm work opportunities. The results … highlight the gendered impact of climate change, potentially exacerbating extant gender gaps in the labor market. …
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Household Consumption Volatility and Poverty Risk : Case Studies from South Africa and Tanzania
Bellon, Matthieu - 2020
fluctuations, raising the incidence of poverty. Drawing on micro-level data from South Africa and Tanzania, we examine the … that reducing consumption volatility would have on aggregate poverty. We then discuss coverage of consumption insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836527
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What happened to real earnings in Egypt, 2008 to 2009?
Cichello, Paul; Abou-Ali, Hala; Marotta, Daniela - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-38
Nominal earnings in Egypt did not respond to the increase in inflation between February 2008 and February 2009, resulting in a 12.3 (9) percent decline in average (median) real earnings among 25 to 60 years old workers. Changes in earnings differ significantly by groups: (i) those with higher...
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Is the Allocation of Time Gender Sensitive to Food Price Changes? An Investigation of Hours of Work in Uganda
Campus, Daniela; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2016
explores the nature of time poverty by examining how changes in the prices of the two major staples consumed, matooke and … Uganda National Household Survey by adopting a Tobit-hybrid model. Our results show that gender differentials in the intra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584691
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Gendering Technological Change: Evidence from Agricultural Mechanization
Afridi, Farzana; Bishnu, Monisankar; Mahajan, Kanika - 2020
Technological change in production processes with gendered division of labor across tasks, such as agriculture, can have a differential impact on women's and men's labor. Using exogenous variation in the extent of loamy soil, which is more amenable to deep tillage than clayey soil and therefore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322511