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...

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Published in:	Journal of Development Studies Vol. 54; no. 7; pp. 1232 - 1253
Main Authors:	Getahun, Tigabu D., Villanger, Espen
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul2018
Subjects:	Female-intensive occupations Poor women Semiskilled labor Poverty Employment Bargaining power
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