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This paper provides a new definition of 'time poverty' as working long hours and having no choice to do otherwise. An … individual is time poor if he/she is working long hours and is also monetary poor, or would fall into monetary poverty if he …/she were to reduce his/her working hours below a given time poverty line. Thus being time poor results from the combination of …
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The papers in this volume examine the links between gender, time use, and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. They … contribute to a broader definition of poverty to include time poverty, and to a broader definition of work to include household … literature and surveys on time use in Africa, and use tools and approaches drawn from analysis of consumption-based poverty to …
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This paper provides a new definition of 'time poverty' as working long hours and having no choice to do otherwise. An … individual is time poor if he/she is working long hours and is also monetary poor, or would fall into monetary poverty if he …/she were to reduce his/her working hours below a given time poverty line. Thus being time poor results from the combination of …
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This contribution provides a new definition of time poverty as working long hours without choice because an individual …'s household is poor or would be at risk of falling into poverty if the individual reduced her working hours below a certain time-poverty … line. Time poverty is thus understood as the lack of enough time for rest and leisure after accounting for the time that …
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such data. While the idea of “time poverty” is not new, and while many papers have provided measures of time use and hinted … at the concept of time poverty, we have not seen in the literature formal discussions and measurement of the concept of … time poverty alongside the techniques used for measuring consumption poverty. Conceptually, time poverty can be understood …
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poverty and inequality of an increase in the working hours of the population up to what is referred to as a full employment … reduction in poverty, even at the relatively low current levels of wages and earnings enjoyed by the population. However, even … at full employment levels, poverty would remain massive, and the higher workload that the full employment scenario would …
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Evidence for Malawi and other developing countries suggests the existence of labor shortages at the peak of the cropping season, with negative impacts on the ability of households to make the most of their endowments such as land. At the same time, for most of the year, there is substantial...
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