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Technological change in production processes with gendered division of labor across tasks, such as agriculture, can …
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Climate change has increased rainfall uncertainty, leading to greater production risks in agriculture. We examine the … gender-differentiated labor impacts of droughts resulting from lower precipitation using unique individual-level panel data … explained by social costs emanating from gender norms that constrain women's access to non-farm work opportunities. The results …
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Uganda National Household Survey by adopting a Tobit-hybrid model. Our results show that gender differentials in the intra …
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that rainfall variability induces the reallocation of labor supply: (i) out of agriculture to unemployment, (ii) from …. These effects differ in rural and urban areas and by gender. In addition, active women's involvement in the labor market and … implies that traditional gender roles may make households in developing countries more vulnerable to adverse consequences of …
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This paper studies the link between gender-biased technological change in the agricultural sector and structural …-level data from the Census of Agriculture, we show that the adoption of milking machines triggered a process of structural … the gender division of labor in the agricultural sector. We also quantify significant inter-generational effects of this …
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The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the shift from a "Tayloristic" organization of work (characterized by significant specialization by tasks) to a "holistic" organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks...
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We study whether cultural attitudes towards gender, the young, and leisure are significant determinants of the …
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improves life and leisure satisfaction, but these well-being gains are observed only among women. This gender difference is not … employment) as compared to their male counterparts, highlighting the potential of working-hour regulations to promote gender …
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This paper empirically examines firm owners' gender difference in labor demand. We estimate the average treatment …
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This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points during pandemic relative to pre-pandemic employment, while their...
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