Marriage, Work and Migration: The Role of Infrastructure Development and Gender Norms
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- Amrit Amirapu & Niaz Asadullah & Zaki Wahhaj, 2019. "Marriage, work, and migration: The role of infrastructure development and gender norms," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2019-92, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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Keywords
migration; marriage markets; female labour force participation; gender norms;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
- R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAB-2018-10-15 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-MIG-2018-10-15 (Economics of Human Migration)
- NEP-SOC-2018-10-15 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
- NEP-URE-2018-10-15 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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