This paper estimates the potential income gains associated with greater gender parity in social institutions and the … cost of the current level of discrimination. Using cross-country analysis, it investigates how gender-based discrimination … in social institutions, measured by the OECD Development Centre’s Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI), affects …

’s happiness? This paper shows that gender based discrimination in social institutions, measured by the Social Institutions and … Gender Index (SIGI), impedes well-being, beyond its negative impact on economic growth and GDP. Both men and women are … taking into account country and individual characteristics. Current gender-based discrimination in social institutions fuels …

Using the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) from the OECD Development Centre, this paper provides evidence of … the two-way relationship between gender inequality in social institutions and South-South migration. Discriminatory social … institutions in both origin and destination countries are one additional determinant of female migration. Gender inequality appears …

: the percentage of females declines over increasing levels of the hierarchy. However, when considering the gender … organizational hierarchy. For both internals and externals, a key factor producing differences in gender composition across levels of …

Past studies of gender and hierarchy document that the proportion of women declines as one looks up levels of the … explained by observed human capital factors of education, work, and management experience. Networks also contribute to this … do males. In addition to these gender differences at the point of application, we find evidence that demand …

Since 2009, the OECD Development Centre has been publishing the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI), a cross …-country measure of gender-based discrimination in social institutions (formal and informal laws, social norms and practices). This … SIGI 2019 methodology establishes a criterion for the computation of measures of gender-based discrimination –where zero …