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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Women's Employment"”.
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Married Women's Employment and Family Income Inequality
This study examines the impact married women's employment and earnings have on family income inequality in one developing country, Malaysia. Using the first and second waves of the Malaysian Family Life Surveys, this study finds, first, that married women's employment has increased from 1976 to …
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Women's Higher Education, and Women's Employment in Saudi Arabia
This research argues that increased women's employment is an imperative for Saudi Arabia because of many changes that are occurring in almost all modern sectors of that society. But the model of women's employment in many modern societies is perceived as repugnant to Islamic norms of sexual …
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Women's employment in garment factories in Bangladesh : emancipation or exploitation?
Women's participation in export-oriented industries has been one of the most dominant features in many developing countries since the 1970s. Employment in waged jobs has often been viewed as a means of women's integration into development processes. Research showed that development efforts in Third …
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The impact of married women's employment on household expenditures for clothing
… research was to analyze the impact of wives’ employment status and occupation on household expenditures for clothing, when controlling for income and various sociodemographic variables. The sample consisted of 2,285 households selected from the public use tapes of the Quarterly Interview …
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Women's employment equity in South African local government : a study of senior managers
… literature covering the historical evolution of women’s movements and feminists theories. It reviews empirical evidence on the implementation of gender equality initiatives in South Africa. A data set on employment statistics of local government is utilised. As an analytical device, the data for …
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The Transition From Welfare to Work: An Analysis of Factors Influencing Women's Employment Patterns
… not prevent poverty. The need for greater local employment opportunities and increased transportation options for city residents is also clear.
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Three Essays on the Impact of Education on the Women's Employment and Empowerment in South Korea
… essays, explores the impact of education for women’s employment and empowerment. As a context, this thesis has chosen South Korea as a newly industrialized but a non-Western originating economy during the mid-late twentieth century. All three essays adopt different theoretical frameworks and …
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The office secretary a study of an occupational group of women office workers
… was made of one clerical occupation-in which women predominated, that of the office secretary. The research aimed to examine the occupation in the general context of women's employment and in particular to examine the relationship between the secretary's job and occupational and social …
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An analytical study of members of a horizontal women's professional and managerial network as related to diffusion theory
This study of a horizontal women's professional and managerial network investigated what women perceived as possible benefits of network affiliation and attempted to build a profile of women who belonged. Using diffusion theory of social network analysis as a theoretical framework, the research …
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'a Man's World'?: A Study Of Female Workers At Nasa's Kennedy Space C
By focusing on women workers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, this study seeks to understand why women were initially congregated in certain occupations such as clerical work and later moved into non-traditional jobs such as engineering and the sciences. Such an investigation requires …
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Essays in Gender and Labor Economics
… 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 pooling when allocating …
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Shared parenting in Australia? : Examining the involvement of men and women in childrearing
… explored the factors associated with men's and women's childrearing behaviour. Data used to investigate the many components of parenting was from three main sources. Published national data from census and labour force surveys illustrate the major trends in fertility and with whom children live. …
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Shared parenting in Australia? : Examining the involvement of men and women in childrearing
… explored the factors associated with men's and women's childrearing behaviour. Data used to investigate the many components of parenting was from three main sources. Published national data from census and labour force surveys illustrate the major trends in fertility and with whom children live. …
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Women Returning to Work Across the Life Course: Who Does It, Why, and What Do They Return To?
Using data on over 10,000 person-spells of non-employment lasting 2 months or longer in the NLSY79, my dissertation examines how women’s reasons for job exit, motherhood status, and education affect 1) the probability and timing of their return to work, 2) whether they change occupation and …
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Essays in Development and Labor Economics
… who design workplaces do not prioritize women’s needs when doing so. The final chapter focuses on a different population, of the poorest Indian households, and studies whether a “big-push” program providing these households with a large asset transfer can durably lift them out of poverty. …
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The impact of household energy access on socio-economic outcomes in Zambia
… solar home systems) electricity on nonfarm employment, monthly income, and expenditure of the household. Using the Inverse Probability Treatment Weighting estimation strategy, the results reveal heterogeneity in the impacts of the technology used in the electrification programme on household …
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Las mujeres dentro de la industria farmacéutica global: situación y problemáticas. El caso argentino
En 2014, la industria farmacéutica significó el 3.8% del valor bruto añadido mundialmente en manufactura y empleó a aproximadamente 5.1 millones de personas a nivel global. Por otra parte, si bien se ha definido a la igualdad de género como un factor con claro impacto en la economía de las naciones …
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Family-friendly workplace policies in the United States: Associations with maternal and child health
Women in the United States face uniquely challenging circumstances regarding employment and childbirth. Unlike all but two other countries worldwide, the U.S. does not guarantee paid leave to employed women who give birth, and the 12 weeks of unpaid leave provided under the Family and Medical Leave …