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Author : George Psacharopoulos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (777 download)
Download or read book Case Studies on Women's Employment and Pay in Latin America written by George Psacharopoulos and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Psacharopoulos
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Case Studies on Women's Employment and Pay in Latin America written by George Psacharopoulos and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's role in economic development can be examined from many different perspectives, including the feminist, anthropological, sociological, economic and legislative. This study employs an economic perspective and focuses on how women behave and are treated in the work force in a number of Latin American economies. It specifically considers the determinants of women's labor force participation and male-to-female earnings differentials. Understanding the reasons for low labor market participation rates among women, or high wage discrimination against women, can lead to policies that will improve the efficiency and equity with which human resources are utilized in a particular country. This study uses household survey data to analyze labor force participation rates and wages earned by men and women in similar positions, paying special attention to the role of education earned by men and women in similar positions, paying special attention to the role of education as a factor influencing women's decision to work. The results show that, overall, the more years of schooling a woman has, the more likely she is to participate in the labor force. In addition, more educated women earn significantly more than less educated women. The book also attempts analyses of the common factors which determine salaries paid to men and women in an effort to identify what part of the male/female earnings differential can be attributed to different human capital endowments between the sexes, and what part is due to unexplained factors such as discrimination. Differences in human capital endowments explain only a small proportion of the wage differential in most of the country studies.
Author : George Psacharopoulos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (654 download)
Download or read book Case studies on women's employment and pay in Latin America written by George Psacharopoulos and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's role in economic development can be examined from many different perspectives, including the feminist, anthropological, sociological, economic and legislative. This study employs an economic perspective and focuses on how women behave and are treated in the work force in a number of Latin American economies. It specifically considers the determinants of women's labor force participation and male-to-female earnings differentials. Understanding the reasons for low labor market participation rates among women, or high wage discrimination against women, can lead to policies that will improve the efficiency and equity with which human resources are utilized in a particular country. This study uses household survey data to analyze labor force participation rates and wages earned by men and women in similar positions, paying special attention to the role of education earned by men and women in similar positions, paying special attention to the role of education as a factor influencing women's decision to work. The results show that, overall, the more years of schooling a woman has, the more likely she is to participate in the labor force. In addition, more educated women earn significantly more than less educated women. The book also attempts analyses of the common factors which determine salaries paid to men and women in an effort to identify what part of the male/female earnings differential can be attributed to different human capital endowments between the sexes, and what part is due to unexplained factors such as discrimination. Differences in human capital endowments explain only a small proportion of the wage differential in most of the country studies.
Author : María Magdalena Camou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317130200
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Gender Inequalities and Development in Latin America During the Twentieth Century written by María Magdalena Camou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents evidence of the evolution of the gender inequalities in Latin America during the twentieth century, using basic indicators of human development, namely education, health and the labour market. There are very few historical studies that centre on gender as the main analytical category in Latin America, so this book breaks new ground. Using case-studies from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay, the authors show that there is evidence of a correlation between economic growth and the decrease in gender inequality, but this process is also not linear. Although the activity rate of women was high at the beginning of the twentieth century, female participation in the labour market diminished, until the 1970s, when it began to increase dramatically. Since the 1970s, fertility reduction and education improvements and worsening labour market conditions are associated to the steadily increase of women participation in the labour market. By gauging the extent to which gender gaps in the formation of human capital, access to resources, quality of life and opportunities may have operated as a restriction on women’s capabilities and on economic growth in the region, this book demonstrates that Latin America has lagged behind in terms of gender equality.
Author : George Psacharopoulos
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Women's Employment and Pay in Latin America written by George Psacharopoulos and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura Chioda
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821399624
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Work and Family written by Laura Chioda and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over recent decades, women in Latin America and the Caribbean have increased their labor force participation faster than in any other region of the world. This evolution occurred in the context of more general progress in women’s status. Female enrollment rates have increased at all levels of education, fertility rates have declined, and social norms have shifted toward gender equality. This report sheds light on the complex relationship between stages of economic development and female economic participation. It documents a shift in women’s perceptions whereby work has become a fundamental part of their identity, highlighting the distinction between jobs and careers. These dynamics are made more complex by the acknowledgment that individuals are part of larger economic units—families. As development progresses and the options available to women expand, the need to balance career and family takes greater importance. New tensions emerge, paradoxically made possible by decades of steady gains. Understanding the new challenges women face as they balance work and family is thus crucial for policy.
Author : Claudia Piras
Publisher : IDB
ISBN 13 : 9781931003957
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Women at Work written by Claudia Piras and published by IDB. This book was released on 2004 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Psacharopoulos
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Latin American Women's Earnings and Participation in the Labor Force written by George Psacharopoulos and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite worsened economic conditions since the 1970s, women's participation in the labor force has increased significantly since the 1950s -- possibly because women have benefited disproportionately from expansion of the public sector. Sound public policy on education, family planning, childcare, and taxes -- as well as public efforts to increase women's job opportunities -- is most likely to improve women's (and hence children's) welfare.
Author : Natalija Novta
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 147557892X
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (755 download)
Download or read book Women at Work in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Natalija Novta and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women across the world remain an underutilized resource in the labor force. Participation in the labor force averages around 80 percent for men but only 50 percent for women – nearly half of women’s productive potential remains untapped compared to one-fifth for men. Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), as a region, saw the largest gains in female labor force participation (LFP) in the world during the last two decades. Women in LAC are becoming increasingly active in paid work, closing the gap with men and catching up to their counterparts in advanced economies at an impressive rate. In this paper, we document the recent trends in female LFP and female education in the LAC region, discuss the size of potential gains to GDP from increasing female LFP and policies which could be deployed towards this goal.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900444291X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Gender Inequality in Latin America written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gender Inequality in Latin America: The Case of Ecuador Pablo Quiñonez and Claudia Maldonado-Erazo bring together a collection of articles that critically examine the origins and social and economic implications of gender inequality in Latin America, focusing on Ecuador.
Author : George Psacharopoulos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Women's Employment and Pay in Latin America written by George Psacharopoulos and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Merike Blofield
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 027106868X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Care Work and Class written by Merike Blofield and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite constitutions that enshrine equality, until recently every state in Latin America permitted longer working hours (in some cases more than double the hours) and lower benefits for domestic workers than other workers. This has, in effect, subsidized a cheap labor force for middle- and upper-class families and enabled well-to-do women to enter professional labor markets without having to negotiate household and care work with their male partners. While elite resistance to reform has been widespread, during the past fifteen years a handful of countries have instituted equal rights. In Care Work and Class, Merike Blofield examines how domestic workers’ mobilization, strategic alliances, and political windows of opportunity, mostly linked to left-wing executive and legislative allies, can lead to improved rights even in a region as unequal as Latin America. Blofield also examines the conditions that lead to better enforcement of rights.
Author : Jennifer Abbassi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742510753
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Rereading Women in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Jennifer Abbassi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensable text reader provides a broad-ranging and thoughtfully organized feminist introduction to the ongoing controversies of development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Designed for use in a variety of college courses, the volume collects an influential group of essays first published in Latin American Perspectives--a theoretical and scholarly journal focused on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas. The reader is organized into thematic sections that focus on work, politics, and culture, and each section includes substantive introductions that identify key issues, trends, and debates in the scholarly literature on women and gender in the region. Demonstrating the rich and multidisciplinary nature of Latin American studies, this collection of timely, empirical studies promotes critical thinking about women's place and power; about theory and research strategies; and about contemporary economic, political, and social conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Valuable as both a supplementary or primary text, Rereading Women makes a convincing claim for a materialist feminist analysis. It convincingly shows why women have become an increasingly important subject of research, acknowledges their gains and struggles over time, and explores the contributions that feminist theory has made toward the recognition of gender as a relevant--indeed essential--category for analyzing the political economy of development.
Author : June C. Nash
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Women and Change in Latin America written by June C. Nash and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1986 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparison, woman worker, urban area and rural women, employment, economic role, social change, structural change, Latin America - social implications of industrialization, social role, economic recession, female headed household, labour force participation, working conditions, income generating activities, agrarian reform, migrant workers, torture, political participation. Photographs, references, statistical tables.
Author : Geertje A. Nijeholt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135629935
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Women's Movements and Public Policy in Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean written by Geertje A. Nijeholt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The triangle of empowerment is how this volume's editors describe the three sets of actors involved in women's collective struggles in the political arena: the women's movement, feminist politicians, and feminist civil servants. Original case studies from Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean analyze the political struggles women are waging to make their voices heard and to place women's issues on the agenda in different societies.
Author : Merike Blofield
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271058897
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Care Work and Class written by Merike Blofield and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite constitutions that enshrine equality, until recently every state in Latin America permitted longer working hours (in some cases more than double the hours) and lower benefits for domestic workers than other workers. This has, in effect, subsidized a cheap labor force for middle- and upper-class families and enabled well-to-do women to enter professional labor markets without having to negotiate household and care work with their male partners. While elite resistance to reform has been widespread, during the past fifteen years a handful of countries have instituted equal rights. In Care Work and Class, Merike Blofield examines how domestic workers’ mobilization, strategic alliances, and political windows of opportunity, mostly linked to left-wing executive and legislative allies, can lead to improved rights even in a region as unequal as Latin America. Blofield also examines the conditions that lead to better enforcement of rights.
Author : Hilda Kahne
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Women's Work And Women's Lives written by Hilda Kahne and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1992-10-20 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative analysis of the nature of the relation between women and paid work in both modernizing and industrial countries, this book explores the variables that shape the relationship: demographic factors, the social and cultural context, the political environment, and the level and direction of economic development. Contributors point to a number of similarities in the roles, activities, and status of women in countries with varying levels of development, but they also argue that women's productive activities in both market and nonmarket economies exhibit distinctive characteristics, having evolved in ways that reflect the particular circumstances of the country. An introductory section provides a historical and sociological framework for the analysis as well as a statistical overview of women's nonagricultural employment. The country case studies that follow focus on health, education, and family roles and provide a wealth of data about the characteristics of paid work and the workplace, including occupations and earnings, technological change, pay equity, work schedules, cooperatives, and the informal labor market.
