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

Tigabu D. Getahun and Espen Villanger ()

Journal of Development Studies, 2018, vol. 54, issue 7, 1232-1252

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2018
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