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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Gender and Labor"”.
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Essays in Gender and Labor Economics
This dissertation investigates the multifaceted labor market outcomes for women, with a particular focus on mothers with young children. The first chapter examines how household bargaining affects childcare expenditure among heterosexual couples with children. Traditional models assume income …
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Common ground: Nature, gender and labor in representations of rural communities in Spanish literature, 1895-1920
… history, 1895-1920, in which the 1898 Disaster and the uneven and lagging processes of modernization exacerbated differences between Spain and other European nations, differences between regions and classes within the country, and differences between the sexes. In their search for answers to the …
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After Mary Prince: navigating 'authenticity' in 20th-century diasporic women's migration narratives
… Specifically, I offer readings of how the signs "gender" and "labor" are strategically deployed and manipulated in contexts of migration. Such deployments and manipulations suggest that the notion of "authenticity," often used in feminist and postcolonial readings of women's narratives, is too …
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Alternative Income Generating Opportunities: A Case Study in Mezquital, Mexico
… debates of economic policy in Latin America, gender, labor and development. The theoretical analysis sets the stage to facilitate a process aimed at assisting the local women of Mezquital in creating alternative income generating opportunities to meet their specific economic needs and to …