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Framework for Analysis of Female Paid Labor ; Supply in Islamic Emena Countries.
Bahrman, J.R.; Moffitt, R. - Center for Development Economics, Williams College - 1991
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650295
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AN EVALUATION OF THE BUTZ-WARD HYPOTHESIS OF CONTERCYCLICAL FERTILITY.
MACUNOVICH, D.J. - Economics Department, Williams College - 1990
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650317
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Relative Income and Price of Time: Exploring their effcts on U.S. Fertility and Female Labor Force Participation, 1963-1993.
Macunovich, D.J. - Economics Department, Williams College - 1996
This paper attempts to review and synthesize the literature on the economics of fertility in order to develop a model which combines the "the price of time" and the "relative income" concepts underlying the two most well-known models.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650334
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Do Young Women Trade Jobs for Marriage: A Skeptical View: A Response.
Macunovich, D.J. - Economics Department, Williams College - 1996
participation of young women to show that, because of an overlap between the proportion of women in school and the proportion … counted as being in the labor force (young women "working their way through school"), when labor force participation rate is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650344
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The Gender Wage Gap: An Inter-Industry Approach.
Longva, P.; Strom, S. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 1996
Despite some reductions in the male-female pay gap in the post-war period, gender differentials seem to persist in all industrial countries. This is also the case in the Scandinavian countries where the wage dispersion hase been compressed as a consequence of a "solidaric wage policy".
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652176
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Income inequality and the economic position of women in Norway 1970 - 2002
Bojer, Hilde - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2005
In the period from 1970 to 2002, Norwegian women moved out of the home and into the paid labour market. The paper … investigates the e®ect of this social change on women's economic position and on individual income in-equality. It argues that the … Statistics Norway in the period, giving reliable data on income for samples varying from 6000 to 30 000 women and men. Women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652350
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The Importance of Women's Education and Status for Fertility in Tanzania in the 1990s.
Kravdal, O. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 1998
The analysis is based on individual 1996 TDHS data combined with aggregate data from the 1988 census and the 1991/1992 TDHS. When various sources of spuriousness are taken into account, education is found to reduce fertility much less than suggested by univariate tabulations of total fertility rate.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652394
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Daycare Subsidies and Labor Supply in Sweden
Gustafsson, Siv; Stafford, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988
The provision of subsidized child care may encourage women to participate in the paid labor force. This paper analyzes … the provision of high quality public day care in Sweden encourages the labor market activity of women with preschoolers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656121
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Suggesting Effective Policy Frames for Chronic Poverty Alleviation in India
Nath, N C B - eSocialSciences - 2008
where it has a significant presence. The author has used surrogates like tribal populations, senior citizens and women self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696002
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Women’s Economic Empowerment as the “Magic Potion†of Development?
Blumberg, Rae Lesser - eSocialSciences - 2008
Boosting women’s relative control of income and other economic resources has so many consequences that positively enhance both gender equality and development that female economic empowerment may be close to being a “magic potion.†[Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696027