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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sengupta, Atanu. (Author), Datta, Soumyendra Kishore. (Author), Mondal, Susanta. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: India : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:SpringerBriefs in Economics,
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1056-6
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.�����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������.