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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...
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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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Environs trois quarts des pauvres à travers le monde vivent dans les zones rurales. Parmi eux, les femmes constituent un groupe particulièrement vulnérable et pourtant stratégique pour le développement économique et social. Investir au profit des femmes rurales ne répond alors plus...
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imperative; it can also be a promising strategy to effectively fight poverty and hunger. …
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Alrededor de tres cuartas partes de los pobres del mundo viven en zonas rurales. Entre ellos, la mujer constituye un grupo especialmente vulnerable pero de importancia decisiva para el desarrollo económico y social. Invertir en la mujer rural, por tanto, no es sólo un imperativo moral, sino...
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technical barriers to trade (TBT) on gender relations in the agricultural labour market between 1995 and 2012. Our results … the non-tariff measure, but more so because of their unequal access to opportunities such as gender inequality in …, gender parity achieved in primary education and increased access to time saving infrastructure increases their share of …
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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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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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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/10012822834
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 …
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