Labour-Intensive Jobs for Women and Development: Intra-household Welfare Effects and Its Transmission Channels

We examine the welfare impacts of poor women getting low-skilled jobs and find large positive income, consumption and poverty effects at household and individual levels. However, the women workers, their husbands and oldest daughters reduced their leisure, but the women to a much larger extent. Inve...

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Published in:The Journal of development studies 2018-07, Vol.54 (7), p.1232-1252
Main Authors: Getahun, Tigabu D., Villanger, Espen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bargaining
Consumption
Daughters
Economic models
Husbands
Leisure
Low income groups
Poverty
Power
Working women
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Summary:We examine the welfare impacts of poor women getting low-skilled jobs and find large positive income, consumption and poverty effects at household and individual levels. However, the women workers, their husbands and oldest daughters reduced their leisure, but the women to a much larger extent. Investigating the transmission mechanisms suggests that the impacts did not only go through income effects, but also through a bargaining effect. Getting the job improved the bargaining power of the wife through several mechanisms, which in turn added substantially to the positive impact on household consumption.
ISSN:0022-0388
1743-9140
DOI:10.1080/00220388.2017.1327661