increasing presence of first mover migrant women (coming from Latin America and Eastern Europe) is associated with higher …

to the 'early' industrializing countries of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It shows that women are far more … greater equality is rooted in educational opportunities; and argues that both educational provision, and women's entry into … developing economies. -- elites ; higher education ; women ; development ; economic history ; families …

The study assesses women’s empowerment based on literature review including the references on respective countries and … women’s empowerment, documents on laws and policies. Furthermore, the research seeks to provide a response to the question …

various aspects of the relationship between women and migration, including key ways in which non-migrant women are affected by … migration, as well as how female migrants affect families and labor markets in both source and destination communities …While scholars have long studied the economics of migration, increasing waves of international and regional migration …

We consider a non-cooperative model of the household, in which the husband and wife decide on parental leave and the … benefits from the agreement and moves the intermediate-gap couples to their outside option where women work more and men do … more home production. As a result, the cost of raising children increases and fertility declines. Assuming a loss of …

Across countries, women and men allocate time differently between market work, domestic services, and care work. In … dispersion across countries at similar income levels. We use these data to motivate a macroeconomic model of household time use … women plays a crucial role in generating the observed dispersion of outcomes, particularly for middle-income countries …

, and by age 22 significantly more women than men have completed high school or tertiary education. From an early age, both … women and men undertake a lot of unpaid labour for their households that tends to be highly gendered, and women's work is … uncounted in the current System of National Accounts definition of labour. However, women still undertake less paid work than …