Productivity, Separability and Deprivation A Study on Female Workers in the Indian Informal Service Sector /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Sengupta, Atanu (Συγγραφέας), Datta, Soumyendra Kishore (Συγγραφέας), Mondal, Susanta (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: India : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: SpringerBriefs in Economics,
• Θέματα: Econometrics.; Microeconomics.; Labor economics.; Development economics.; Economics.; Development Economics.; Labor Economics.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.                                                                                                     .