In agricultural labor exchange, farmers temporarily pool their labor into teams and complete a task on each team member's plot in succession. Labor time is exchanged between team members under strict reciprocity and without pay. The use of agricultural labor exchange in developi…
"13" Result
Sort By:
This research is motivated by the need to examine the constraints facing women in their labor force participation. Studying women's access to income is important because various studies have found women spend a larger proportion of their income on goods and services that benefit…
The dissertation consists of essays entitled "Changes in Female Labor Force Participation in Brazil 1976-1990: Pushed by Need or Pulled by Opportunity?"; "How Do Family Planning Worker Visits Affect Women's Behavior in Bangladesh?" and "Is Doorstep Delivery of Contraceptives Equ…
This research examines variations in women's labor force participation among a little known population of Arab-American women. Labor force participation is an important measure of women's achievement levels because it signifies access to economic power, which is strongly correla…
The study examined various possible ways to affect the growth rate, their probable costs, and their probable contribution to growth in Bangladesh. Some particular elements of growth, such as the size of the labor force, the length of the workweek, the quantity of capital, or the…
This paper examines the contribution of multifactor productivity (MFP) growth to output per worker growth in Malaysia from 1961-2000. MFP growth is found to contribute about 74 percent to output per worker growth from 1987-2000, but has only minimal or negative contribution to g…
This dissertation analyzes the effects of mandatory education and child allowance programs on Arab women's labor force activity and fertility patterns in Israel. In the case of mandatory education, it also looks at effects on age of marriage. It is divided into two chapters, eac…
This study examines cross-national variation in the female labour force participation in developed and developing countries, where Canada and Bangladesh are used as examples. The general findings of the study are that in Bangladesh female labour force participation largely depen…
This study investigates the interaction between wages and labor force participation in Palestine for the period of 2000 to 2011. This period has witnessed series of severe economic and political shocks and moderate recoveries. There are three areas of interest this dissertation …
This dissertation addresses the question of how race and gender interact to affect the participation of women in the economic development of Peninsular Malaysia. Four aspects of opportunities for women were analyzed: labor force participation; educational attainment; occupationa…
In spite of remarkable advances in its socioeconomic setting, Jordan has one of the lowest female labor force participation rates among Arab countries, which are generally among the lowest in the world. Investigation of the reasons behind the underutilization of women in Jordan …
Objetivo: Basados en un enfoque epidemiológico de curso de vida, reconstruimos trayectorias laborales individuales y medimos su asociación con diferentes indicadores de salud oral en la vejez. Material y Métodos: Utilizamos una encuesta representativa de historias de vida de per…