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Incidence of poverty in working-age population in EU countries : a gender perspective
Kovářová, Eva; Vašenková, Tereza - In: Prague economic papers : a bimonthly journal of … 33 (2024) 4, pp. 444-477
Poverty reduction has long been one of the political priorities of the European Union and its member states. Despite the political declarations and measures applied, poverty is still a phenomenon that affects the everyday lives of about 70 million Europeans. Moreover, trends in poverty incidence...
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Protectionism and gender inequality in developing countries
Artuc, Erhan; Depetris Chauvin, Nicolas; Porto, Guido G.; … - In: Journal of globalization and development 14 (2023) 2, pp. 177-222
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Gendered Labour Markets and Globalisation in Asia
Sen, Gita - 2012
This paper argues that processes of economic globalisation have significantly transformed labour markets in Asia during the last three decades. A central feature of this transformation is the growing importance of female labour at the core of economic processes. This feature has been extensively...
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Gendered globalization : the relationship between globalization and gender gaps in employment and occupational opportunities
Roll, Yoav; Semyonov, Moshe; Mandel, Hadas - 2022
countries (circa 2013) obtained from the Luxembourg Income Study, we examine the extent to which globalization and each of its … effect of globalization on two outcomes: women’s labor force participation and women’s relative odds of obtaining high …-income, high-status jobs. The findings show, first, that social globalization is more consequential for gender inequality in the …
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Does connectivity reduce gender gaps in offfarm employment? : evidence from 12 low- and middle-income countries
Egger, Eva-Maria; Arslan, Aslıhan; Zucchini, Emanuele - 2021
Gender gaps in labour force participation in developing countries persist despite income growth or structural change. We assess this persistence across economic geographies within countries, focusing on youth employment in off-farm wage jobs. We combine household survey data from 12 low- and...
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Essays on gender, migration, and development
Santos Silva, Manuel Pedro Duarte - 2018
This dissertation focuses on the relationship between gender equality and economic development, broadly defined. Since the seminal work of Ester Boserup (1970), gender equality is widely understood as being both an instrument for and a consequence of economic development. The first three...
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Upstreamness, social upgrading and gender : equal benefits for all?
Gagliardi, Nicola; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François - 2018
This paper examines social upgrading related to firms' participation in Global Value Chains (GVCs) from a developed countries' perspective. Merging detailed matched employer-employee data relative to the Belgian manufacturing industry with unique information on firm-level upstreamness, we...
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Dynamics of inequalities in a global perspective : an introduction
Bashi Treitler, Vilna; Boatcă, Manuela - 2020
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The Corporatization of Sport, Gender and Development : Postcolonial IR Feminisms, Transnational Private Governance and Global Corporate Social Engagement
Hayhurst, Lyndsay M.C - 2011
Across the globe, the 'Girl Effect' is a growing but understudied initiative that assumes that girls are catalysts capable of bringing social and economic change to their families, communities and countries. In an attempt to build on the 'promise' of women as agents of development, there has...
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