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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"female labour"”.
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Female labour market adjustment processes in the UK coalfields.
… study focuses on the processes occurring in the female labour markets of coalfield areas in Great Britain. During the 1980s and 1990s these areas experienced a major loss of male employment as a result of the decline of the coal industry. The research looks at how female employment in these areas …
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Female labour force participation and economic growth in South Africa
Since the mid-90s female work compel investment has seen a stark increment (by 38%) boosting the general business levels. However, by global norms female labour force participation stays low and it is lower than for men averaging to a gap. Women’s work remains characterised by domestic and cultural …
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Determinants of female labour force participation in Zambia: a micro data analysis.
There are many factors that influence females to enter the labour market. Women in most of the developing countries are underrepresented in the labour force. In this regard, the equity and efficiency related Sustainable Development Goals, in particular; ensuring inclusive and equitable quality …
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Determinants of female labour force participation in Zambia: a micro data analysis.
There are many factors that influence females to enter the labour market. Women in most of the developing countries are underrepresented in the labour force. In this regard, the equity and efficiency related Sustainable Development Goals, in particular; ensuring inclusive and equitable quality …
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Female labour, status and marriage in late medieval York and other English towns
… between. servants and employers. The range of female economic activity has been fully examined and evidence presented for both regional and secular variation. The case argued is that the early emotional independence from I parents created by service, and the possibility of real economic …
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Female labour force participation amidst the reestablishment of the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan 2021-2023
Afghanistan experienced a significant decline in female labour force participation (FLFP) from 17% in 2021 to 6% in 2022, concurrently with re-establishing the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban) in August 2021. Thus, this study aims to investigate the factors that could have contributed to …
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Work, class and gender in Canadian fiction, 1890s-1920s
… understanding of gender economies surrounding female labour. I also interrogate how far popular literature of the period explored and represented these new opportunities, and to what extent novelists retained a traditional emphasis on the primary role of women as wives and mothers. More …
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Work sequences of Filipino women during the life cycle
… attempt s to analyse the trends and patterns of female labour force participation based on the 1960, 1970 and 1975 censuses . The main analysis utilises the data from a sample of currently married women aged 15-49 included in the 1978 Republic of the Philippine s Fertility Survey (RPFS ) whose …
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Work sequences of Filipino women during the life cycle
… attempt s to analyse the trends and patterns of female labour force participation based on the 1960, 1970 and 1975 censuses . The main analysis utilises the data from a sample of currently married women aged 15-49 included in the 1978 Republic of the Philippine s Fertility Survey (RPFS ) whose …
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The Economic Impacts of Migrant Maids in Malaysia
… those without suggest that hiring maids raises female labour force participation rates of their employers by 26 percentage points. But such comparisons are not of like with like because households that employ maids differ in many ways from those who do not. When propensity score matching (PSM) …
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A quantile regression analysis of the conditional female wage distribution in post-apartheid South Africa
… brought about increased economic opportunity for labour market participants. The impact of democratisation on the labour market outcomes of both males and females of various races has been studied extensively in terms of mean earnings. However, because of the heterogenous distribution of South …
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Shaping economic inequality: the starring role of the household in the 'welfare triad'
… Increases in single-headed households, in female labour market participation, and in the employment and earnings similarity of partners are changes of primary interests for economic inequality. In addition, the thesis investigates how market, state, and family produce and redistribute …
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Intergenerational and Occupational Mobility
… premia, mating patterns across occupations and female labour supply. The paper uses the British Household Panel Survey to examine the UK over 1991-2008. The findings suggest that most of the factors listed above have important roles. The period is characterised by pronounced movements in …
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Gender Differences in Earnings and Occupational Attainment in Europe
Despite significant increases in female labour market participation and educational achievement in the EU in recent decades, women still trail men in terms of employment rates, earnings and occupational attainment. This thesis is about the interplay between the characteristics of individuals …
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Importance of SME development in Cambodia
… advantages relative to LEs: (1) SMEs are more labour-intensive than LEs and S"MEs provide more jobs for women than LEs; (2) SMEs are as productive as LEs or even more productive than LEs; and (3) srvms are more equitable in distributing the income they generate than LEs. Most of the previous …
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Magical Girls: Contemporary Girlhood in Children’s Fantasy
… question of the animal, oppression of nature and female labour in neoliberal society, and a posthumanist vision of natureculture. The conclusion points out the implications of endowing girls with magic in children’s fiction: these stories make visible how the girl’s body is not only entangled with …
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The economics of social subordination : gender relations and market failure in the highlands of Papua New Guinea
… takes the form of the underallocation of labour and land to coffee production. This is a direct result of the poor labour returns that women receive; they receive around one-third of those of men. Women's returns are so low that their labour returns are higher in food production and they …
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Understanding factors that structure young Indian women’s entry into non-traditionally female occupational training: “I wanted to become something, but didn’t know what to become”
… the key to increasing India’s low and declining female labour force participation rate, this study examines the factors that structure entry into non-traditional job training for young women from low-income households in Delhi (India). The study is based on 72 semi-structured interviews, …
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Exploring the status of African Women in the South African Labour Market 1995-2004
… measures to improve the status of women in the labour market. For example, new legal provisions were enacted while international laws were also embraced. This demonstrated the government's commitment to achieve equality between men and women in the labour market and society at large. Given that …
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