The Feminization U in South Africa: Economic Structure and Women's Labor Force Participation.
The feminization U theory claims that women’s labor force participation drops during the initial phase of industrialization and rises once a certain level of development is reached. This paper is the first to exploit the diversity in economic structure across municipalities to consider the shape of...
| Publicado en: | Feminist Economics Vol. 22; no. 4; pp. 54 - 82 |
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Oct2016
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