| Description |
xxx, 264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Women, work and agricultural commercialisation in the Philippines / Maria Floro -- Industrialisation strategies and gender composition of manufacturing employment in Turkey / Günseli Berik and Nilüfer Çağatay -- Female-headed households and urban poverty in Pakistan / Yasmeen Mohiuddin -- The hidden roots of the African food problem : looking within the rural household / Jeanne Koopman -- Economic development and the feminisation of povety / Tuovi Allèn -- Economic independence of women in the Netherlands / Marga Bruyn-Hundt -- The impact of demographic trends in the United Kingdom on women's employment prospects in the 1990s / Lynne Evans -- Union density and women's relative wage gains / Jean Fletcher and Sandra Gill -- The effects of Japanese income tax provisions on women's labour force participation / Aiko Shibata -- Women and part-time work : France and Great Britain compared / Marie-Gabrielle David and Christophe Starzec -- Differential returns to human capital in full-time and part-time employment / John F. Ermisch and Robert E. Wright -- Part-time work in Sweden and its implications for gender equality / Marianne Sundström -- Re-entrance into the labour market of women graduates in Greece : the results of an experimental training programme / Athena Petraki Kottis -- Women in higher education : recent changes in the United States / Mariam K. Chamberlain -- The impact of population policies on women in Eastern Europe : the German Democratic Republic / Lynn Duggan. |
| Note |
First published in hardcover in 1992 as v. 4 of: Issues in contemporary economics : proceedings of the Ninth World Congress of the International Economic Association, Athens, Greece. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Subject |
Women -- Economic conditions -- Congresses.
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Women -- Employment -- Congresses.
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Women in development -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Folbre, Nancy.
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International Economic Association. World Congress (9th : 1989 : Athens, Greece)
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| ISBN |
081472616X paperback $25.00 |
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