Women as agents of change: Female income and mobility in India.
Women as agents of change: Female income and mobility in India.
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jdeveco.2010.01.002
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发表时间：
2011-01-01
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
Munshi K
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文献类型：
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作者：
Luke N;Munshi K
经济全球化将使发展中国家的许多妇女第一次有机会获得稳定和相对有报酬的工作，这可能会改变她们在家庭中的议价能力，并改变她们为子女所作的选择。本文利用了一个独特的环境——印度南部的一组茶园，那里的妇女从事长期雇佣劳动，收入不因种姓而异——来预测全球化对未来社会群体流动的影响。本文的主要结论是，女性收入的相对增加削弱了家庭与祖先社区和传统经济的联系，但这些流动性增强效应仅适用于某些历史上处于不利地位的种姓。尽管本文根据具体情况解释了为什么来自这些种姓的妇女成为变革的推动者，但分析的第一个一般含义是，妇女利用其收入影响家庭决策的动机和能力在很大程度上取决于她们的社会背景。第二个含义是，事实上，历史上处于不利地位的群体可能对新的机会特别敏感，正是因为他们与传统经济的联系较少，从而阻碍了他们的发展。
Economic globalization will give many women in developing countries access to steady and relatively remunerative employment for the first time, potentially shifting bargaining power within their households and changing the choices that are made for their children. This paper exploits a unique setting — a group of tea plantations in South India where women are employed in permanent wage labor and where incomes do not vary by caste — to anticipate the impact of globalization on mobility across social groups in the future. The main result of the paper is that a relative increase in female income weakens the family's ties to the ancestral community and the traditional economy, but these mobility enhancing effects are obtained for certain historically disadvantaged castes alone. Although the paper provides a context-specific explanation for why the women from these castes emerge as agents of change, the first general implication of the analysis is that the incentive and the ability of women to use their earnings to influence household decisions depends importantly on their social background. The second implication is that historically disadvantaged groups may, in fact, be especially responsive to new opportunities precisely because they have fewer ties to the traditional economy to hold them back.
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