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WOMEN IN PAID DOMESTIC WORK AND THE GEOGRAPHIES OF HOME: VOICES FROM NAIROBI, KENYA [PDF]
, 2023 openThe concept of paid domestic work mostly centers on women domestic workers both in the Global North and South. Paid domestic work is predominantly undertaken by migrant women or women from lower socio economic backgrounds; this way differentiating it
MUTUNGA, GLADYS MUENI
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MN•CS•IO System: Cross‐Species Study for HBB Function in High‐Altitude Hypoxia Adaptation
Advanced Science, EarlyView.We developed an integrative mesh‐nanorod sorting, chitosan nanoparticle delivery, and intraosseous injection (MN•CS•IO) system to investigate HBB in high‐altitude hypoxia adaptation. Transplanting Tibetan animals' HBB‐modified Lin‐ cells into mice achieved 95.59% transfection efficiency and 8.15% HBB expression. High‐altitude HBB recipients upregulated
Wenqiao Hui +18 more
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Hemp Cultivation and Crop Diversification: Implications for Ecosystem Services in Kentucky
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the ecosystem benefits of expanding hemp cultivation by assessing its impact on crop diversity. Using scenario‐based simulations and fixed‐effect panel regressions with county‐level data in Kentucky, we find that increased hemp acreage tends to enhance crop diversity, improving water quality and bird diversity.
Yunsun Park +4 more
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Home Is Where the Work Is: Inside New York's Domestic Work Industry - Executive Summary [PDF]
, 2006 New York City is a leading force in the global economy, but it couldn't be without the 200,000 domestic workers who sustain the city's families and homes.
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Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 2012 On the basis of 13 in-depth interviews with Swedish women and one month of ethnographic work in the Swedish community in Singapore in 2009, this article examines how Swedish women, travelling from Sweden to Singapore as “expatriate wives” in the wake of ...
Catrin Lundström
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Chinese Trade Competition and Rural Mexican Migration
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 reshaped global trade, reducing U.S. demand for Mexican manufactured goods and weakening Mexico's manufacturing employment. This study estimates how this trade‐induced decline affected migration and employment decisions among rural Mexicans.
Zachariah Rutledge, Joaquin Mayorga
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Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
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, 2022 AbstractThe transnational migration of women (and some men) as domestic and care workers is based on the increasing expansion of a private market which is recruiting workers, mainly in the Global South, to perform tasks relating to reproductive labour in wealthier countries. To understand the experience of these workers, it is important to consider how
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Decolonizing work: Unpacking the gendered-colonial distinctions between work from home and domestic work [PDF]
, 2023 Domestic work is nearly always assumed to not ‘directly’ contribute to an economy. The ‘economy’ of a country is in fact produced through the lens of ‘paid vs. unpaid’ work – where only paid work contributes to the GDP.
Dixit, Anukriti +1 more
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Delaying the Inevitable? U.S. Screwworm Closures and Feeder Cattle Market Dynamics
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Biosecurity trade restrictions are commonly framed as preventive measures, yet in many settings they function primarily as policies of delay: they impose immediate market costs while only postponing the arrival of biological risks. This paper evaluates that intertemporal tradeoff using the 2024–2025 US suspension of live cattle imports from ...
Shelby Sumner +3 more
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