Productivity, Separability and Deprivation A Study on Female Workers in the Indian Informal Service Sector
In production and service sectors we often come across situations where females remain largely overshadowed by males both in terms of wages and productivity. Men are generally assigned jobs that require more physical work while the ‘less’ strenuous job is allocated to the females. However, the gend...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Delhi
Springer India
2013, 2013
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2013 |
| Series: | SpringerBriefs in Economics
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Review on Gender Studies
- Chapter 3: Case studies: Implication of separability
- Labour Separability: Gender Dimension
- Male-Female Separability: Primary and Secondary Sector
- Male-Female Separability: Tertiary Sector
- Chapter 4: Framework of Study
- General Model
- Partial Separability
- Perfect Separability
- Justification of using Cobb-Douglas function
- Chapter 5: Data Used
- Preliminary Ideas
- Concepts and Definitions
- Different Features of the Data
- Chapter 6: Gender and Partial Separability: The Indian Experience
- Preliminary data analysis
- Estimates using partial separability
- Chapter 7: Gender and Perfect Separability: The Indian Experience
- The Indian Experience
- Empirics of shadow wage differentials
- Chapter 8: Deprivation and Gender Divide: Some Issues
- Pattern of Female Labour Use – Some Preliminary Features
- Micro Econometrics of Female Labour Use
- Explanatory Analysis in the Female Labour Use.