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Marriage, work, and migration : the role of infrastructure development and gender norms
Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2019
Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, preventing them from taking advantage of economic … engage in long-distance migration-if they are wealthy enough to match with the desirable migrating grooms. Guided by a model … in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets will be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129346
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Marriage, work and migration : the role of infrastructure development and gender norms
Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2018
Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of … using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if they are wealthy enough to match with the desirable migrating … grooms. Guided by a model in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011910970
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Sons or daughters? : the impact of children's migration on the health and well-being of parents left behind
Wahba, Jackline; Wang, Chuhong - 2019
We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents … left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel … positive effect of the migration of daughters on parents' health and life satisfaction, but no such beneficial effects when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019306
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Women : walking and waiting for water the time value of public water supply
Groß, Elena; Günther, Isabel; Schipper, Youdi - 2013
Public funding of water supply infrastructure in developing countries is often justified by the expectation that the time spent on water collection significantly decreases, leading to increased labor force participation of women. In this study we empirically test this hypothesis by applying a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010359090
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Explaining age and gender differences in employment rates: A labor supply side perspective
Humpert, Stephan; Pfeifer, Christian - 2011
This paper takes a labor supply perspective (neoclassical labor supply, job search) to explain the lower employment rates of older workers and women. The basic rationale is that workers choose non-employed if their reservation wages are larger than the offered wages. Whereas the offered wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281775
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Parental disability and teenagers' time allocation
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2021
Using the 2003-2019 American Time Use Survey, we examine how living with a parent who has a work-limiting disability is related to teenagers' time allocation. For girls, we find that living with a disabled parent is associated with less time spent on educational activities, including both class...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519362
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Explaining Age and Gender Differences in Employment Rates : A Labor Supply Side Perspective
Humpert, Stephan - 2012
This paper takes a labor supply perspective (neoclassical labor supply, job search) to explain the lower employment rates of older workers and women. The basic rationale is that workers choose non-employed if their reservation wages are larger than the offered wages. Whereas the offered wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101871
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Looking for the Workforce : The Elderly, Discouraged Workers, Minorities, and Students in the Baltic Labour Markets
Hazans, Mihails - 2010
This paper looks at the evolution of the labour markets in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania since the beginning of transition (in some respects since 1996/1998) until 2003, with a particular focus on labour force participation. How did labour supply in the Baltic countries respond to changes in to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066395
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Explaining Age and Gender Differences in Employment Rates: A Labor Supply Side Perspective
Humpert, Stephan; Pfeifer, Christian - 2011
This paper takes a labor supply perspective (neoclassical labor supply, job search) to explain the lower employment rates of older workers and women. The basic rationale is that workers choose non-employed if their reservation wages are larger than the offered wages. Whereas the offered wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009279915
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Gender and the total work of older workers in Asia
Donehower, Gretchen - 2023
In Asia, aging countries with slow population growth worry about a lack of workers in the future and see older people's labor as a potential solution. However, this leaves out the work that many older people already do-unpaid care work. Drawing on data from Bangladesh, India, Mongolia, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014312916