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This study is earlier research works done on Tharparkar and Sindh barrage, and similar studies related to demographic, social and economic conditions and chapter-2 as a literature review of the thesis of Ph.D submitted in 2002. Purpose of the chapter was to give the complete picture of both...
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We document that the gender gap in non-agricultural work in developing countries exists primarily among rural married … joint labor supply decisions of rural married couples, accounting for gender-specific labor distortions and entry barriers … greatly amplifies the effects of gender-specific labor distortions, and that changes in entry barriers to non …
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Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone and key drivers of economy and economic growth in each country. In developing countries like Afghanistan, SMEs are a good source of income generation and employment, and they are considered the heart of private sectors. After the...
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Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone and key drivers of economy and economic growth in each country. In developing countries like Afghanistan, SMEs are a good source of income generation and employment, and they are considered the heart of private sectors. After the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015214397
We document that the gender gap in non-agricultural work in developing countries exists primarily among rural married … joint labor supply decisions of rural married couples, accounting for gender-specific labor distortions and entry barriers … greatly amplifies the effects of gender-specific labor distortions, and that changes in entry barriers to non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015214572
This study analyzes productivity differentials between men and women in the peasant agriculture in Nepal. Both Cobb-Douglas and translog production functions are estimated using data from the Nepal Living Standard Survey 2003/04. Evidence is found for higher value of marginal product of adult...
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graduates contributes to the gender pay gap in Greece. The case of Greece is interesting as it is an EU country with … historically large gender discrepancies in earnings and one of the highest levels of occupational gender segregation among OECD … returns to academic disciplines are firstly estimated by gender. It is found that the subjects in which women are relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015216124
This study is earlier research works done on Tharparkar and Sindh barrage, and similar studies related to demographic, social and economic conditions and chapter-2 as a literature review of the thesis of Ph.D submitted in 2002. Purpose of the chapter was to give the complete picture of both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015217402
is consistent with the glass ceiling hypothesis according to which there exist larger gender wage gaps at the upper tail …
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The paper measures the gender wage differentials among members of the Icelandic public sector union federation … last 15 years while the agreements have also been decentralized. The paper shows that although the gender wage differential … has fallen from 1994 to 2007 it is still significant. The base wage gender wage differential is smaller than the gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015218871