Working Paper
Norms that matter
Based on primary data from India, this paper analyses the reasons underlying women’s low labour force participation. In developing countries, women engaged in unpaid economic work in family enterprises are often not counted as workers. Women are...
Working Paper
The effect of foreign competition on family and network labour allocation
This paper examines whether foreign competition affects the reallocation of unpaid and family workers from household businesses to working outside of the family firm. Using a rich panel dataset of Vietnamese manufacturing enterprises that went...
Blog
A fiercely contested omission — or why we need to keep talking about unpaid care
by
Naila Kabeer
March 2022
In the late 1950s, the United Nations System of National Accounts was set up to promote the collection of internationally comparable data on...
Journal Article
Norms that matter
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Women’s Work