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Feminist Economics Volume 19 Issue 1

Subject Areas: Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Publisher: Routledge - Taylor & Francis
ISSN: 1466-4372
SJR: 60

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Women's Empowerment and Gender Bias in the Birth and Survival of Girls in Urban India

Mukherjee, Sucharita Sinha

2013 Feminist Economics

doi:10.1080/13545701.2012.752312

Abstract Despite improvements in women's work opportunities and educational achievements, women's survival disadvantage is a demographic reality of urban India. A temporal and cross-sectional analysis of the data from the 1991 and 2001 census of India, while reaffirming the positive association...
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Negotiating Domestic Labor: Women's Earnings and Housework Time in Australia

Baxter, Janeen; Hewitt, Belinda

2013 Feminist Economics

doi:10.1080/13545701.2012.744138

Abstract Recent research in the United States has found that wives' absolute earnings level is more important than their earnings relative to their spouses in determining time spent on housework. Utilizing data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, this...
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An End to Job Mobility on the Sales Floor: The Impact of Department Store Cost Cutting on African-American Women, 1970–2000

Davis, Katrinell M.

2013 Feminist Economics

doi:10.1080/13545701.2012.736027

Abstract Much of the literature regarding the employability of African-American women focuses on how demographic factors like single parenthood, limited social capital, and low levels of education diminish their employment options. This study engages this literature by exploring the role that...
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Border Enforcement and Selection of Mexican Immigrants in the United States

Lozano, Fernando A.; Lopez, Mary J.

2013 Feminist Economics

doi:10.1080/13545701.2012.752313

Abstract Since 1986, the United States has made considerable efforts to curb undocumented immigration across the US–Mexico border, resulting in an increase in migration costs for undocumented immigrants from Mexico and placing a particularly heavy burden on undocumented immigrant women. Using...
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Exploring “Underachievement” Among Highly Educated Young British-Bangladeshi Women

Niven, James; Faggian, Alessandra; Ruwanpura1 , Kanchana N.

2013 Feminist Economics

doi:10.1080/13545701.2012.748985

Abstract Current mainstream wisdom portrays the young British-Bangladeshi community as underachieving in education. However, this study suggests that young British-Bangladeshi women tend to be high achievers in education. This research interrogates the multifaceted experiences of...
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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

Lustig, Nora

2013 Feminist Economics

doi:10.1080/13545701.2012.744139
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Gender Inequalities, Households, and the Production of Well-Being in Modern Europe

LeBaron, Genevieve

2013 Feminist Economics

doi:10.1080/13545701.2012.746996

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