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Using a national representative sample for Mexico, we analyse the effect of a husband having a working mother on the probability that he has a working wife. Our results show that labour force participation by a husband’s mother increases the probability of the labour force participation of his...
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Access to energy, in this case to a basic electricity service, is considered a human right as established in most countries’ National Constitution. High electricity costs are frequently seen as an obstacle to get energy access in the case of most vul-nerable households. In Argentina, the size...
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The study focuses on the analysis of economic growth of the Latin American countries, during the period 1950-2000 The methodology of the paper is based on the use of spatial econometric thechniques applied to a cross section and panel data. The results showed conditional convergence for the...
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determined by gender. For both periods, on average, women devote more time to housework and childcare than men, while men spent …
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distinct phenotypes: Caucasian, mestizo and indigenous. We also randomly vary marital status across gender and phenotype. Hence …
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This paper examines the effects of Chile Solidario programme on labour market outcomes from a gender perspective. Chile … to provide poor families with auxiliary social services, including support for employment. We compare the gender impact …
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In this paper we analyze the on-impact effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on Ecuadorian firms and, conditional on this, we analyze firms' short-run performance. We estimate various econometric models on a combined dataset of almost 5,000 firms that includes fiscal-year performance variables from...
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This paper explores the determinants of female labor supply over the course of Italy’s post-unification history (1881-2018). It uses a newly constructed adjusted series of female labor force participation, disaggregated by region and major sector of activity. The panel dimension of the data is...
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controlling the household farm, measured as her time spent on the farm relative to the husband, negates the shock-induced gender … differential in expenditures. Together, these results highlight gender-specific impacts of household income shocks on consumption …
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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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