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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Labor Participation"”.
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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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The Rise of the Maquiladoras and Crimes in Mexico
<p>While it is generally argued that a stronger labor market is negatively associated with crime, there exists a “consensus of doubt” around the relationship between employment and crime. This paper examines the impact of the rise of female labor participation in manufacturing on various types of …
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Gender Inequality and Terrorism: An Analysis of the Effects of Socioeconomic Gender Inequality on Terrorism
… gender inequality in the areas of education, labor participation, and life expectancy. Results indicate that education and life expectancy inequality increase the risk of terrorism, while labor inequality is unrelated. While the time frame and data used in this study limit generalizability, …
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Leveraging bargaining power under patriarchy: the economic development of post-revolutionary Cuban women
… backdrop. Economic indicators through labor participation are emphasized as the primary metrics for women’s development, while bearing in mind the implicit intersectionalities that they represent in the political and social spheres. A discussion of the Cuban education system, instituted …
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Gendered Political Economy: The Economic and Social Factors that Affect Women’s Political Participation
… attitude that increasing women’s economic participation leads to their empowerment, or increases their agency in influencing decision making. This is despite large data evidence to the contrary and acknowledgement by financial institutions that a link cannot be established. This thesis …
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Essays in development economics
… found a substantive increase in their non-labor incomes. Because old-age benefits for rural workers are not means or retirement tested, this reform may be a very useful natural experiment for studying pure income effects. I use information from surveys administered before and after the …
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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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Labor allocation decisions of Virginia's farm families
… Statistical Service in 1989, off-farm labor participation models were developed to identify factors that influence the probability that a farm operator or spouse in Virginia would choose to work off the farm. The sample indicated that a substantial proportion of Virginia farms had at …
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ESSAYS ON A SMALL OPEN ECONOMY WITH CROSS-BORDER LABOR MOBILITY
… negative externality from over-allocation of labor abroad (over migration) justify the presence of distortionary taxes. Chapter 2 shows that an increase in remittances due to shocks in the host country increases consumption, but reduces domestic output due to labor migration. In such a case, …
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Three essays on households' location decisions: analysis of the processes of gentrification and rural-urban migration
… called manufacturing and violence, and mobile labor and capital. Workers choose their location by observing the wage differentials and two distortions in the economy: the existence of unemployment in the cities and a distortion in the violence sector related to the ""guilt and fear"" faced by …
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Selectivity, Transferability of Skills and Labor Market Outcomes of Recent Immigrants in the United States
… characteristics affect and determine their labor market participation, returns to education and wages in both their country of origin (before migration occurs) and in the United States. The dissertation also estimates the extent to which immigrant skills are transferable to the American …
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Scholastic Economics, Classical, and Modern
… unemployment rate is a function of net unit labor costs (that is, labor compensation after subtracting taxes on workers and adding social benefits received by workers and their dependents) as a share of national income and developing and applying Rueff’s insight that inflation (or,more …
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El impacto de la participación femenina en el mercado laboral de los hombres en Colombia desde 1984 hasta 2012
… evidencia de que el incremento de la oferta laboral femenina, durante las últimas tres décadas, afecta las condiciones laborales de los hombres en términos de empleo e ingresos en un país en desarrollo como Colombia.