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Using the two consecutive thick rounds of National Sample Survey data, we investigate the role of stigma, the economy's structure, potential selection bias, and sectoral differences in explaining the low labor force participation (LFP) of middle and secondary educated women in India relative to...
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for low female work participation. The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) Employment Unemployment Survey (EUS) unit …
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This paper presents the first systematic comparison of job stability for developing and developed countries, and begins to analyze why long-lasting jobs are less prevalent in developing countries. It compares both cross-section distributions of current job tenure and estimates of job retention...
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infrastructure to contribute to the development of stable, well-paid employment in rural areas of low-income countries. Particular …
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, showing a much more nuanced picture of female labor force participation than one might expect. Recent trends in employment and … factors drawing women into the labor force at attractive employment and pay conditions. This affects, by 2004, only a small …
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benefit from increasing expenditure on tourism but their susceptibility to deterioration in price competitiveness. The …. Tourism's considerable contributions to foreign currency, income and employment generation are examined. The paper argues that …
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We ask whether the gendered division of work affects firm productivity across the spectrum of economic development. Personnel records of over 100,000 individuals hired by a global firm that operates in 100 countries reveal that the performance of female employees is higher where women are...
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participation and employment). In contrast, there are important effects at the intensive margin: a 10 percentile higher ICT skills … index increases the probability of salaried employment by 6.5 percentage points, and leads to a 9.5 percent higher per … capita expenditure. Employment transitions happen from daily wage employment and self-employment to salaried employment. The …
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a few papers that examine ethnic networking as a business or employment strategy. In many ways Africa's failure to … examine the relationship between employment, wages and ethnicity in Africa via a case study of Kenya. I challenge the … a dominant group (in terms of population and also politically) has an impact on the possibility of employment and the …
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This paper looks at the links between inequality of opportunity and views about the underlying processes that support economic success or failure. Unlike income inequality, inequality of opportunity isolates the extent to which inequality in circumstances beyond an individual's control...
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