Female Headship, Feminization of Poverty and Welfare

Kimenyi, Mwangi S.; Mbaku, John Mukum

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“…All these variables capture the incentives to work associated with family economic responsibilities. Household formation also signi®cantly a¨ects its poverty status, particularly for women (Kimenyi and Mbaku 1995).…”

Section: Independent Variables: Human Capital/life-cycle Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Supplementary or transfer incomes available to individuals act as disincentive to participate in the labor market (Isserman and Rephann 1993). Generous welfare policy also negatively a¨ects household poverty status particularly for women (Kimenyi and Mbaku 1995). However, Mo½tt (1992) in his comprehensive literature review paper concludes that the problem of welfare dependency could not be ascribed to the work disincentive of the welfare program.…”

Section: Independent Variables: Human Capital/life-cycle Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Independent and linked migration: Individual return of employment opportunity and household return of poverty status to African American interstate migration

Lee¹,

Zhee

2001

Ann Reg Sci

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The thrust of this study is to describe and contrast the determinants and outcomes of African-American interstate migration. We examine two types of migration outcomes – individual return to employment probability and household level return to poverty status. We investigate these motivations and outcomes based on a new typology of migration through the lens of household change that accompanies migration. We specify a pairwise two-stage probit model incorporating individual and state-level variables using Public Use Micro Sample data and various ecological data in the US. We show that independent migrants move to other states envisioning economic models of migration with migration as a derived response to opportunities, pressures, and constraints imposed by spatial inequalities in socioeconomic development. On the other hand, we demonstrate that linked migrants move to other states also for their economic need, but via kinship. In this case, the linked migrants' path does not follow the general pattern of economic circumstances. We show that household composition is an important factor that influences the destination choice for African Americans. While independent migrants are more concerned with diverse economic conditions at destinations, kinship, other ties and household structure at destinations are more significant factors for linked migrants. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001JEL classification: J15, J61, R23,

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Section: Independent Variables: Human Capital/life-cycle Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Independent Variables: Human Capital/life-cycle Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Independent and linked migration: Individual return of employment opportunity and household return of poverty status to African American interstate migration

Lee¹,

Zhee

2001

Ann Reg Sci

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“…However, even with growth remaining poor may be increasingly more difficult to exploit the labor market meaning that the growth elasticity to poverty reduction declines. For a similar argument, see, Kimenyi and Mbaku (1995).…”

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confidence: 81%

Economic Rights, Human Development Effort, and Institutions

Kimenyi

2007

Economic Rights

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“…De nombreuses études se sont intéressées à la relation des femmes chefs de ménage avec la pauvreté en Afrique subsaharienne, à l'instar d'autres régions en développement (Appleton, 1996 ;Bentley, 2004 ;Dungumaro, 2008 ;Kebe et Charbit, 2007 ;Kimenyi et Mbaku, 1995 ;Locoh et Ametepe, 2004 ;Mberu, 2007 ;Oginni, Ahonsi et Ukwuije, 2013 ;Rogan 2013). Les résultats de ces études ne montrent pas de régularité dans l'association entre le fait d'avoir une femme à la tête d'un ménage et le risque que ce ménage soit pauvre.…”

Section: Ménage Dirigé Par Une Femme Et Féminisation De La Pauvreté Eunclassified

Inégalités entre les ménages dirigés par les hommes et ceux dirigés par les femmes à Ouagadougou : entre déterminisme et spécificités

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Moussa

2015

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Dans cette étude, nous examinons le lien entre le sexe du chef de ménage et la relation à la pauvreté du ménage à Ouagadougou. L’analyse en composantes principales et la two step cluster analysis ont été appliquées aux données du Recensement général de la population et de l’habitat du Burkina Faso de 2006. Elles ont permis de comparer les caractéristiques socioéconomiques du groupe des hommes et du groupe des femmes chefs d’un ménage et de distinguer différents sous-groupes les composant. Les résultats indiquent que les femmes jeunes, actives et célibataires ou mariées affichent la plus grande proximité avec le niveau de vie « élevé ». Le groupe des femmes âgées, inactives et principalement veuves présente les conditions de vie les plus médiocres. Les ménages dirigés par un homme tendent eux à se situer plus au milieu, dans la classe moyenne. La situation des femmes chefs de ménage à Ouagadougou se révèle être à l’intersection de la classe sociale et du cycle de vie.Using principal component analysis and cluster analysis on census data, the paper examines the relationship between the gender of the household head and poverty in Ouagadougou. First, we investigated whether the distinction of households based on the sex of the household head sufficiently explains the differences between female and male headed households. Second, we investigated whether households headed by women were systematically more impoverished than those headed by men. The results indicated that of the different sub-categories of household heads identified in the analyses, the sub-group of young, active women, married or single, is the most closely associated with “high standard of living” households. The group composed of elderly, inactive widows has the most unsatisfactory living conditions. These results underline the importance of social class and life cycle in the relationship between poverty and female headed households

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Female Headship, Feminization of Poverty and Welfare

Cited by 29 publications

References 10 publications

Independent and linked migration: Individual return of employment opportunity and household return of poverty status to African American interstate migration

Independent and linked migration: Individual return of employment opportunity and household return of poverty status to African American interstate migration

Economic Rights, Human Development Effort, and Institutions

Inégalités entre les ménages dirigés par les hommes et ceux dirigés par les femmes à Ouagadougou : entre déterminisme et spécificités

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