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1. The impact of rural electrification and institutional quality on agricultural output : a case of Sub-Saharan Africa
Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of EconomicsSammanfattning : Agriculture is the means of livelihood for most rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa. In order for small-scale farmers to meet the basic needs of their families and semi-large-scale farming for trading purposes, rural farmers seek to expand their output. To this end, the kind of input employed in the crop production process is very important. LÄS MER
2. Women, Work, and the Family Economy: A Study on the Determinants of Female Gainful Employment in Sweden, 1880-1910
Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenSammanfattning : Today, Swedish women have one of the highest participation rates. In the nineteenth century, however, virtually no married women were recorded as working. Their participation rates started rising around the turn-of-the-century. LÄS MER
3. Where responsibilities end: Migrant labour and CSR in a Russian supply chain
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälleSammanfattning : Multinational corporations enforce their CSR-policies upon workers in their supply chain. These policies should protect the workers from issues arising from interaction with the corporation, however the impact and purview of CSR is limited. A group of workers particularly vulnerable when CSR fails to tackle social issues are migrant workers. LÄS MER
4. Female Labour Supply and Fertility at the Extensive Margin
Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenSammanfattning : This paper studies the female labour supply response to fertility at the extensive margin. The strategy pursued in this analysis is to identify two groups of childless women who utilized family planning services for the first time, one group for help with pregnancy and one group for help with contraception. LÄS MER
5. How Gender Identity Determines the Chore Wars
Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenSammanfattning : Existing theories of how spouses divide the household labour have conflicting implications. Standard models of comparative advantages and bargaining models both predict that when a woman earns more money than her husband she will do less household work. LÄS MER