Showing 1 - 10 of 2,779
-level modeling techniques, this paper explores the macro-level determinants of the gender poverty gap in the ten post …-socialist European Union member states. In dialogue with the literature on the impact of economic development on gender inequality in … Asia and Latin America, we find that fast-paced, foreign capital led economic growth is associated with a larger gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010514470
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012670781
Women in developing countries face challenges in terms of managing their menstrual hygiene. Oftentimes they do not possess the right means nor materials nor have access to the right facilities. Using a newly released dataset for Burkina Faso and propensity score matching, we provide for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951248
This paper surveys the literature on the relationship between international trade and inclusive growth. It examines claims that the rise in inequality in many countries can be attributed to the concurrent rise in trade competition, especially from EMEs like China, spurring trade tensions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518909
Women are more likely than men to work in the informal sector and to drop out of the labor force for a time, such as after childbirth, and to be impeded by social norms from working in the formal sector. This work pattern undermines productivity, increases women's vulnerability to income shocks,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011965755
Using data from the 2006 Turkish Time-Use Survey, we examine gender differences in time allocation among married … heterosexual couples over the life cycle. While we find large discrepancies in the gender division of both paid and unpaid work at … each life stage, the gender gap in paid and unpaid work is largest among parents of infants compared to parents of older …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608876
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898040
This article analyzes the extent to which changes in household composition over the life course affect the gender … most recent data available from the Time Use National Surveys. We focus on gender differences in the allocation of time …), we show large discrepancies in the gender division of labor at the different life stages. This gender gap exists in all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316675
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001098
Using a two-stage decomposition technique, this paper analyzes the role of occupational segregation in explaining the probability of women vis-'a-vis men of finding high-paying jobs over the life-cycle. Jobs are classified as highly-remunerated if their compensation exceeds a threshold, which is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012150170