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Religious terrorism, forced migration, and women's empowerment : evidence from the Boko Haram insurgency
Elice, Paola; Martinez Flores, Fernanda; Reichert, Arndt R. - 2023
its importance relative to other possible channels for the spatial effect dispersion. The results are different for Fulani …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014384355
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Job market outcomes of IDPs : the case of Georgia
Torosyan, Karine; Pignatti, Norberto; Obrizan, Maksym - 2018
Internally displaced people (IDPs) constitute a serious economic, social and cultural problem for many countries, including countries in transition. Despite the importance of the problem, there are only a handful of previous studies investigating the issue of labor market outcomes of IDPs. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796092
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Job Market Outcomes of IDPs: The Case of Georgia
Torosyan, Karine; Pignatti, Norberto; Obrizan, Maksym - 2018
Internally displaced people (IDPs) constitute a serious economic, social and cultural problem for many countries, including countries in transition. Despite the importance of the problem, there are only a handful of previous studies investigating the issue of labor market outcomes of IDPs. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816573
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The assimilation of migrant households in the urban areas of a developing country
Acharya, Chakra P.; Leon-Gonzalez, Roberto - In: Journal of Developing Areas 49 (2015) 2, pp. 335-354
This paper explores the economic performance of rural-urban migrant households in the recently flourishing urban areas of Nepal. Using nationally representative primary survey data, we find that upon their arrival, these migrant households have 24 percent less income and 13 percent less...
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Push or pull? Drivers of female labor force participation during India's economic boom
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - 2012
, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282183
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Push or Pull? Drivers of Female Labor Force Participation during India's Economic Boom
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653984
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Road Access, Fertility and Child Health in Rural India
Dasgupta, Aparajita; Karandikar, Anahita; Raghav, Devvrat - 2022
fertility decisions and investments in child health. We find that increased access to paved roads at the district-level leads to … a rise in fertility, improved investments in children---measured through breastfeeding duration and immunization … districts with erstwhile lower levels of FLFP, the effects on fertility and child health are driven by paved road access causing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264727
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The role of coresidency with adult children in the labor force participation decisions of older men and women in China
Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - 2014
Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged - rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337413
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Push or pull? : drivers of female labor force participation during India's economic boom
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - 2012
, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533351
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Does Mother Tongue Make for Women's Work? Linguistics, Household Labor, and Gender Identity
Hicks, Daniel L. - 2019
This paper studies the formation and transmission of gender identity in a sample of U.S. immigrants. We document that households with individuals whose native language emphasizes gender in its grammatical structure are significantly more likely to allocate household tasks on the basis of sex and...
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