Globalization, gender and poverty: Bangladeshi women workers in export and local markets

By N. Kabeer, S. Mahmud. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Safety Research

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Globalisation and Poverty: How can Global Value Chain Research Inform the Policy Debate? (2004, neutral): “Kabeer and Mahmud (2004) argue that export garment production generated 1.6 million “new” jobs in Bangladesh, most of which were captured by women.”
Women ’ s economic empowerment and inclusive growth : labour markets and enterprise development (2012, background): “The relatively higher wages and better working conditions that characterise the jobs generated by larger scale units in the export sector compared to elsewhere in the economy, their status as ‘better’, though not necessarily ‘good’ jobs, explains the pull that they exert for young women who migrate ”
Variation in labor market participation of married women in Turkey (2008, background): “It also is in line with theories about assortative mating and partner effects that assume that people with good prospects at the labor market tend to marry with each other and that partners may profit from each others occupational capital (e.g. Smits, Ultee & Lammers 1996, Kalmijn 1998).”
Options for Enforcing Labor Standards: Lessons from Bangladesh and Cambodia (2010, background): “Comparative research on earnings and working conditions indicates that EPZ factories offer superior conditions compared to non-EPZ factories (Kabeer and Mahmud 2004; CPD 2008a; 2008b).”
Does paid work provide a pathway to women's empowerment? Empirical findings from Bangladesh (2011, background): “While women continue to work for extremely long hours in monotonous and repetitive tasks, they enjoy more benefits than most other forms of waged work available to them (Kabeer and Mahmud 2004).”
Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women (2015, neutral): “numeracy and literacy, which then led to a postponement of marriage due to greater educational attainment? We assess the effect of cumulative years of exposure to garment factory jobs on the total years of educational attainment (for those with completed schooling histories), adding an additional co”
From the Firm to the Network: Global Value Chains and Employment Relations Theory (2013, neutral): “…accounts and typically utilize a narrow range of criteria (e.g. wages, employment security), derived, in large part, from their analytical focus on the role of GVCs in poverty alleviation (see also Kabeer and Mahmud 2004; Nadvi and Thoburn 2004; also see Nadvi 2004 for a summary of these studies).”
How does economic empowerment affect women's risk of intimate partner violence in low and middle income countries? A systematic review of published evidence (2009, background): “…when given access to financial resources, women are more likely to invest in their children’s education and nutrition (Quisumbing and Maluccio, 2003; Kabeer and Mahmud, 2004; Roushdy, 2004), have improved health seeking behaviour, and improved antenatal attendance and reduced fertility (Schultz,…”