. Given that individuals in this challenging skill segment of the workforce are more likely to have poor experiences in the … substantial differences in the role of self-employment among low-skilled workers across gender and nativity - women and immigrants … substantially more financially rewarding option for most women. These findings raise the question of why low-skilled women enter …

. Given that individuals in this challenging skill segment of the workforce are more likely to have poor experiences in the … substantial differences in the role of self-employment among low-skilled workers across gender and nativity – women and immigrants … substantially more financially rewarding option for most women. These findings raise the question of why low-skilled women enter …

, widowed populations, the majority of whom are elderly poor women, gain the most. Our investigation into the underlying …We leverage the expansion of the National Social Assistance Program (NSAP) in India in 2006 to estimate the impact of … access to public pensions on three measures of depression for the elderly in below poverty line households, using a …

for women as mothers and housewives. Partnering with higher education institutions, the dictatorship delivered training … programs aimed at fostering domestic skills. Our findings reveal these programs facilitated women's entry into the labor market … participation among women directly exposed during the dictatorship and their daughters raised in democracy. …

Estimated labor force participation rates among free women in the pre-Civil War period were exceedingly low. This is … due, in part, to cultural or societal expectations of the role of women and the lack of thorough enumeration by Census … takers. This paper develops an augmented labor force participation rate for free women in 1860 and compares it with the …

-scale agriculture. Informalization has dampened the impact of the crisis and served to protect the poor, stabilizing the poverty rate at …The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical …