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A Study of Female Labor Force Participation and Fertility: A Cross-Cultural Approach
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Factors Influencing Female Labor Force Participation in Urban, Rural and Kuchi Regions of Afghanistan
Female labor force participation and the factors influencing it are issues that have always attracted the attention of researchers. Given the importance of this issue, the study first examines the female labor force participation rate of Afghan women over the last few decades. Then, the study …
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Marriage, motherhood, childcare arrangements and work: female labor force participation and informal employment under Chinese economic reform
… course, and how they impact on Chinese women’s participation in the labor force and involvement in the informal economy—jobs marked by long working hours, low wages, and little benefits. China experiences rapid economic growth and institutional re-structuring in the market transition where the …
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Essays in population and family economics
… Finally, the third chapter evaluates the labor market effects of public subsidies to families with children. Using variation in the level of benefits provided by a policy reform in the UK that affected differentially what would otherwise be comparable groups of families, I estimate the …
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Three Essays on Labor Supply in China
… studying the determination and evolution of labor supply in China. The analysis especially focuses on the labor market behavior of the wage workers with urban registration (Hukou). The first chapter outlines the dissertation by briefly discussing the motivations, methods, and main findings in …
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Essays on the Macroeconomics of Labor Markets
… essays studying macroeconomics questions about labor markets. The research in this document is separated into chapters that study distinct features of aggregate labor market outcomes. The first essay documents the change in behavior of fertility rate at business cycle frequencies in the United …
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Long-Term Effects of Birth Related Leave on Academic Achievement
… family characteristics, school characteristics, female labor characteristics, and social protection policies. As female labor force participation rates increase the negative effects of unpaid leave rise quickly relative to paid leave. Given trends of increasing female participation in the labor …
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Women, Fertility and Labor Market
… to investigate the role of different factors on female's fertility decisions as well as female labor force participation. This research contains two major parts related to women: first, the impact of State Children Health Insurance (SCHIP) on female's fertility decision is examined. In 1997, …
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Female Legislators and the Power of the Purse: Does Gender Affect Government Spending? A Cross-National Analysis
… findings about the activities and effects of female legislators. The outcome variable, government spending, measures substantive representation by analyzing government spending data across several issue areas. The key question is: has the addition of women to national legislatures led to an …
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Essays in Development Economics
… the effects of flexible work arrangements on female labor force participation in West Bengal. The second essay considers the effects of mobile internet on educational outcomes in Brazil. The third essay examines how information about the carbon footprint of different foods affects meal choices …
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Religious Affiliation and Women's Labor Patterns in U.S. Counties
… those with young children, into the paid labor force. Concurrently, adults across the country have steadily moved away from organized religion. Nonetheless, sociological research has documented relationships between affiliation with conservative religious groups and negative attitudes …
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Empirical Essays in Earnings and Labor Markets in Developing and Transition Economies
… things, brought dramatic changes in the Albanian labor market. This study uses data from the first nationally representative household survey to examine one outcome of a decade-long transition in Albania, the earnings gap between men and women. The average gender earnings gap is calculated at 31 …
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The relationship of social support and personality with work-family conflict among women employees in Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
… conflict (WFC). Hence many women leave the workforce which resulted in low female labor force participation (FLFP) for the country. This study examines the under-researched area of WFC among university women employees in Malaysia. As research on WFC is limited in academic literature of Malaysia …
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Destabilizing gender norms: Women in masculine occupations in the Islamic Republic of Iran
… vastly discussed puzzle of women’s low rates of labor force participation in the Middle East, using the case of Iran while focusing on an under-explored perspective. Iran has one of the lowest rates of female labor force participation in the region and marks an unstable labor market with minimum …
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Essays in Macroeconomics
… family ties and insurance within the family for labor supply decisions, and their macroeconomic consequences (first and second chapter); second, the role of intangible capital and disclosure regulation in shaping firm financing decisions, output, and productivity (third chapter). The first …
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Essays on education and labor market outcomes in Indonesia
Education and labor market outcomes are closely interlinked; the extent to which to they are interdependent in a developing country context, like Indonesia, is the subject of this dissertation. I first query the long-run effects of education on labor market and other related outcomes and on the …
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Three Essays on Development Economics: Social Capital, Cost of the Sanctions and Group-based Inequality in Iran
… on the democratization of a society, I use female labor force participation as a proxy for social capital. Using survival analysis, I show that oil revenue delays the formation of the social capital required for the democracy. In the second paper, I inspect the trend and patterns of …
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Essays in economic development and political economy
… the long-run impacts of the mita, an extensive forced mining labor system in effect in Peru and Bolivia between 1573 and 1812. Results indicate that a mita effect lowers household consumption by around 25% and increases the prevalence of stunted growth in children by around six percentage points …
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Intra-Household Decision Making
… four), “Effects of the Price System on Household Labor Supply,” I introduce leisure and labor into the two-type economy framework that was constructed in the first essay. The main objective of this essay is to investigate the effects of exogenous prices on the labor supply decisions, and …
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A study of household determinants of migration
… specifically the existence of multiple labor force participants and the effect of such participation on household migration and locational choice decisions. Although numerous other aspects of “household” decision making have been analyzed within the economics literature with only limited …
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