Gender, households and informal entrepreneurship in the Dominican Republic.
This paper presents findings from a study on gender and the informal economy, specifically, male and female microentrepreneurs in the Dominican Republic. A representative survey of 201 men and women as well as in-depth interviews with a sub-sample of the same producers are employed to analyze the i...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Comparative Family Studies Vol. 28; pp. 103 - 129 |
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Journal of Comparative Family Studies
Spring 1997
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