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. Women face disadvantage in accessing management positions and entrepreneurship. A range of policies can help reduce gender … upskilling on return from parental leave, encouraging gender equality within firms, integration programmes for foreign-born women … dimensions and root causes of gender inequality call for mainstreaming gender across policy domains. …
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gender reforms, which have the potential to counteract legal gains in women's freedoms, and help explain why potential …
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legal mandates. Understanding the effects of gender diversity in terms of economic performance is important to assess the … impact of these changes. Data on team dynamics and gender differences in preferences (risk-taking behavior, taste for … competition, prosocial behavior) show how gender composition influences group decision-making and subsequent performance through …
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between education institutions and employment, iii) providing training opportunities during working life, and iv) making …
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educational attainment or skills. Gender is a further dimension in which the impacts of trade liberalization can differ. In a … globalizing world it is important to understand whether and how trade policy can contribute toward enhancing gender convergence in …
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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,...
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This article studies the extent of occupational gender segregation in Germany and analyzes the influence of … index. We find that the link between the level of segregation and organizational characteristics such as gender …
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Closing gender gaps makes good economic sense. Advancing the aim of women’s economic empowerment will require policy … channels and interactions between trade and gender for women as workers, consumers, and business owners shows that: (i) trade …
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of gender wage gaps with a view to devising effective policies to reduce them. The findings suggest that, on average …, “sticky floors” related to social norms, gender stereotyping and discrimination account for 40% of the gender wage gap, while …, additionally need to prioritise equal pay and pay transparency laws, measures to address gender stereotyping, competition in …
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