This study investigates the hypothesis that shifts in women's relative income, which affects their bargaining power in the household, have discernible effects on household saving, and by extension on aggregate...
This paper examines the change in the gender wage gap in the manufacturing sector in urban Mexico over the trade liberalization period (1987-1993). Mexico rapidly opened its markets to international trade...
This paper analyzes gender differentials in the returns to education, the returns to experience, and gender wage differentials in the Chilean case. It uses the standard Mincerian wage equation and estimates...
Men and women may be affected differently by the transition from central planning to a market economy and especially by the privatization and restructuring of state-owned enterprises. After briefly reviewing...
The Chilean population is expected to age rapidly in the course of the generation born from 1960 to 1980. The change in deomgraphic composition will likely exhaust traditional support systems of the elderly...
This paper uses quasi-experimental data from Ecuador to understand the impacts of women's employment on household paid and unpaid labor allocation. The "treatment" area is in the area of the cut flower...
The report compares changes in gender roles and women's empowerment in China, the Republic of Korea, and India. Around 1950, when all these countries had new governments following revolution or the end...
This study considers covered and uncovered wage earners and the self-employed. The analysis is carried out for men and women workers separately. The 1994 Turkish Household Expenditure Survey is used to...
This paper presents a synthesis of the empirical literature on intra household time use in developing countries. It discusses the importance of studying time allocated to various activities--market work...
In Bangladesh, women's employment in export-oriented industry has narrowed the gender gap in many spheres including participation in labor force, social prestige, control over income and decision making...
This study documents existing evidence on the gender effects of the recent social and economic transition in Vietnam. Although gender disparities are often attributed to Confucian traditions around men...
This paper sets out to answer two questions. First, are poor females at a significant disadvantage compared to males and non-poor females in terms of welfare indicators of such as health, education, nutrition...
The paper models household demand for child care, mothers' labor force participation, and working hours, in Russia. The model estimates the effects of the price of child care, mother's wage, and household...
The women's movement in India progressed during the period of high nationalism and the freedom struggle, both of which shaped its contours. Among the movement's many achievements, the most significant...
Using cross-country and panel regressions, this report investigates to what extent gender inequality in education and employment may reduce growth and development. The report finds a considerable impact...
This paper is concerned with the factors that shape earnings differentials between men and women in industrialised economies, and in particular, on the impact of policies designed to promote equal opportunity...
This paper uses a set of internationally comparable household datasets (the Demographic and Health Surveys-or DHS) to investigate the ways in which gender and wealth interact in generating within country...
Social policies designed to protect female workers and promote workplace equality have controversial effects on labor market outcomes. Working-hour restrictions and mandated maternity benefits help to...
The paper reviews recent theory and empirical evidence testing unitary versus collective models of the household. In contrast to the unitary model, the collective model posits that individuals within households...
This paper examines how demand for preventive health care differs depending on whose preferences in the household are assessed. The analysis indicates that married women are willing to pay more to prevent...