Search Results - subject:"Home-BASED Workers"

Informal work and the appropriation of social reproduction in home-based work in India

Boeri, Natascia - In: Feminist economics 29 (2023) 3, pp. 130-152

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Occupation, Marital Status and Life-Cycle Determinants of Women's Labour Force Participation in Mid-nineteenth-Century Rural France

Grantham, George - 2012

The French census of 1851 is one of the few nineteenth-century censuses that attempted to record the work of women and children carried out within households. This paper argues that the occupational designations in the nominative census lists are an accurate indicator of employment status. This...

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Mapping Exercise of Home Based Workers in Maharashtra

Gartenberg, Indira - eSocialSciences - 2012

Home-based work has a much wider scope of activity than the singular task of an individual working from his/her home. This essential service is tied in with a larger chain of forward and backward linkages that enable the value addition till the goods reach their final destination of sale. The...

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Occupation, Marital Status and Life-Cycle Determinants of Women’s Labour Force Participation in Mid-nineteenth-Century Rural France

Grantham, George - European Historical Economics Society - EHES - 2012

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Relational contracting at the bottom of global garment value chains : lessons from Mewat

Tewari, Meenu - In: The Indian journal of labour economics : a quarterly … 60 (2017) 2, pp. 137-154

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Revenue Distribution across Value Chains: The Case of Home-based Sub-contracted Workers in Pakistan

Kazmi, Sajid; Khan, Shahrukh Rafi - Department of Economics, University of Utah - 2003

four sectors in Pakistan in a value chain context. Second, to demonstrate the extent to which home-based workers are … make a case for welfare funds for home-based workers across sectors. …

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Gender, Work Intensity, and Well-Being of Thai Home-Based Workers

Floro, Maria; Pichetpongsa, Anant - In: Feminist Economics 16 (2010) 3, pp. 5-44

The contribution explores the time-use dimensions of the individual well-being of home-based workers in Thailand … performing economic activities that affect quality of life. The study focuses on two groups of home-based workers: the self … the well-being of home-based workers. The findings show that women workers experience a higher incidence of work intensity …

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Do Economic Reforms InfluenceHome-Based Work? Evidence from India

Rani, Uma; Unni, Jeemol - In: Feminist Economics 15 (2009) 3, pp. 191-225

This paper analyzes the factors that influence the conditions under which a woman in India participates as a home-based worker using secondary level data at the micro level. At the macro level, the paper analyzes whether trade and industrial liberalization in India led to an increase in...

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Value chains in the informal sector: income shares of home-based subcontracted workers in Pakistan

Khan, Shahrukh Rafi; Kazmi, Sajid - In: International Review of Applied Economics 22 (2008) 3, pp. 339-352

added at the lowest tier of the chain as a measure of income share. These income shares are not adequate to move home-based … workers above the poverty line. …

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Estimating the Number and Economic Contribution of Home-based Garment Producers in Ahmedabad, India

Kantor, Paula - National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) - 2001

Home-based producers are some of the most invisible workers in the unorganised sector. In many industries, including garment making, they comprise a sizeable proportion of the workforce. Because these producers work within the home, often on activities closely related to household production for...

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