Labour-Intensive Jobs for Women and Development: Intra-household Welfare Effects and Its Transmission Channels.
We examine the welfare impacts of poor women getting low-skilled jobs and find large positive income, consumption and poverty effects at household and individual levels. However, the women workers, their husbands and oldest daughters reduced their leisure, but the women to a much larger extent. Inve...
| Published in: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 54; no. 7; pp. 1232 - 1253 |
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