nature of gender, race, class, caste and other influences on the economic situation of individuals and groups. Among … economic literature, describes the contributions of the articles in this special issue of Feminist Economics on "gender, color …

/consumption poverty approach may ignore important issues for women and girls, thereby creating significant gender "gaps" in the analysis … the potential detriment of women and girls. It links the income/consumption approach to poverty with naturalist normative …. Finally, it reviews some of the practical consequences for gender and argues that the philosophical baggage of the income …

's economic restructuring and, through a gender-based analysis, shows how working women lost out in this process. After an … increased their vulnerability in the changing labor market. The evidence of gender inequality, assumptions about women's labor …This paper focuses on employment narratives recounted in life history interviews with women workers in Nanjing, China …

Theory of Moral Sentiments. We first discuss textual evidences of Smith’s vision of gender differences and of the … relationships between the sexes. Then we turn to TMS’s analysis of marriage and family life, exploring the importance of sentiments …

women workers, who serve as a buffer workforce. Rather than being counted as unemployed, Japanese women who lose their jobs … Japan, the vast majority of them women. Thus the Japanese unemployment rate as well as unemployment volatility are …

upon discriminatory effects (direct effect). Whether gender has an impact on size and composition of start-up capital, is …, of whom approximately 500 are women, are used. …

This paper examines the changes in China's gender regime during the reform period, especially during China's accession … to the WTO. The analysis provides a framework to relate these changes to the consumption behavior of women, especially … the increased consumption of cosmetics, to interpret the impact of accession on the gender regime in China …

Within Arab societies, a strong patriarchal contract has given elderly women a claim to economic resources, power … patriarchal contract exist, placing women in a vulnerable situation. In the absence of strong state-sponsored social safety nets …, elderly women without male kin or whose kin do not or cannot fulfill this contract are vulnerable to poverty and neglect …

changes in underlying allocative processes and further demonstrates that membership in women's groups is one effective way of …