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Reports on a case study of 16 married women working in the machine-made jewelry production sector of the Noida Export Processing Zone near Delhi, India, that was part of a larger study conducted in 1996-97. Data were obtained from interviews focused on the impact of waged work on income control & the sharing of domestic work. Three of the women reported that the men control income & never share in household chores; three indicated that their spouses control income but share in household chores; two said they control income but their husbands never help with chores; & eight reported joint control of income & sharing chores. It is concluded that women's wage employment leads to changes in traditional gender regimes & the ability of women to negotiate in order to strike a "better bargain." The study contradicts previous research indicating little sharing of household work by men upon entry of women into waged work & suggests that waged work opens new spaces of empowerment for women. 1 Table. J. Lindroth

Reports on a case study of 16 married women working in the machine-made jewelry production sector of the Noida Export Processing Zone near Delhi, India, that was part of a larger study conducted in 1996-97. Data were obtained from interviews focused on the impact of waged work on income control & the sharing of domestic work. Three of the women reported that the men control income & never share in household chores; three indicated that their spouses control income but share in household chores; two said they control income but their husbands never help with chores; & eight reported joint control of income & sharing chores. It is concluded that women's wage employment leads to changes in traditional gender regimes & the ability of women to negotiate in order to strike a "better bargain." The study contradicts previous research indicating little sharing of household work by men upon entry of women into waged work & suggests that waged work opens new spaces of empowerment for women. 1 Table. J. Lindroth

ABSTRACTThe effects of technological change on wage inequality are usually studied under the assumption of exogenous supplies of skilled and unskilled workers. Moreover, in these studies there is no distinction between the stock (number of workers) and the flow (hours of work) dimension of labour services. In the present paper, we construct a model in which hours of work and technological change affect both the (relative) demand and supply of unskilled workers. The labour supply of unskilled workers (numbers of persons) is derived from a model of household labour supply in which households differ regarding the disutility suffered when both household members work. Combining together the (relative) supply and demand parts of the model we are able to establish technological change (either biased or neutral) as a plausible explanation of recent trends in wage inequality.

Work sharing benefits are partial unemployment benefits, and federal policy related to them is in an administrative muddle. A lack of leadership by the federal government has stalled state implementation. During economic downturns when political voltage is high, policy makers look to work sharing as one way to manage job loss. Conversely, work sharing is often forgotten during prosperous times. This article describes how federalism sometimes facilitates state initiation of work sharing policy and at other times impedes it. The authors discuss work sharing through six policy phases during a thirty-year era of devolving federal authority to states for employment services and job training, and they make observations about the stalemate in federal policy. Adapted from the source document.