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Global Feminization Through Flexible Labor: A Theme Revisited
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The main hypothesis of the original hypothesis was that the changing character of labor markets around the world had been leading to a rise in female labor force participation and a relative if not absolute fall in men's employment, as well as a feminization of many jobs traditionally held by men.About:
This article is published in World Development.The article was published on 1999-03-01. It has received 611 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Feminization (sociology) & Theme (narrative).read more
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Low Schooling for Girls, Slower Growth for All? Cross-Country Evidence on the Effect of Gender Inequality in Education on Economic Development
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how gender inequality in education affects long-term economic growth and found that such inequality has an effect on economic growth that is robust to changes in specifications and controls for potential endogeneities.
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Voices of the poor
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw upon 78 Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA) reports, which are based on discussions with poor women and men and other stakeholders, to understand the informal and formal institutions of society with which poor people interact.
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Gender Inequality and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis
TL;DR: This article investigated empirically the determinants of economic growth for a set of semi-industrialized export-oriented economies in which women provided the bulk of labor in the export sector and found that gender inequality which contributes to women's relatively lower wages was a stimulus to growth via the effect on exports during 1975-95.
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Gender Mainstreaming in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals
TL;DR: The authors highlights the interconnections between production and reproduction within different societies; women's critical role in straddling both and points to various synergies, tradeoffs and externalities which these generate.
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Labor Markets as Gendered Institutions: Equality, Efficiency and Empowerment Issues
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors distinguish between static and dynamic, and micro-and macro-efficiency, and argue that labor market regulation has an important role to play in the institutional transformation needed to reconcile goals of efficiency and equality.
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Women's Role in Economic Development
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the impact of agricultural modernization on the employment of women in rural and urban areas of Africa, focusing on the effects of women's status loss of status under European rule.
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Gender and Jobs: Sex Segregation of Occupations in the World
TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive analysis of the levels and recent changes in the sex segregation of occupations is based on an ILO data set which contains detailed occupational data from 41 economies worldwide.
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Global feminization through flexible labor
TL;DR: The emphasis on structural adjustment and labor flexibility in both developing and industrialized economies is rapidly altering the nature of employment and women are being substituted for men and many forms of work are being converted into the kinds of jobs traditionally geared to women as mentioned in this paper.
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Globalization, Labour Flexibility and Insecurity: The Era of Market Regulation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the international trends to more flexible labour relations in terms of the erosion of seven forms of labour-related personal security and the evolving forms of labor market regulation and conclude that growing labour market flexibility has been accompanied by a reconstitution of the social wage and a profound re-regulation of labour relations.
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