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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
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Measuring women's economic empowerment : time use data and gender inequality
Ferrant, Gaëlle; Thim, Annelise - 2019
Goals, drawing on learning from the Social Institutions and Gender Index and in-country research by the OECD Policy Dialogue … tasks more equally between men and women by transforming gender stereotypes. …
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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women : as immigration lowers childcare and housework costs, nativie-born women alter their work and fertility decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2015
particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be …
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Off-farm employment and time allocation in on-farm work in rural China from gender perspective
Su, Weiliang; Eriksson, Tor; Zhang, Linxiu; Bai, Yunli - In: China economic review : an international journal 41 (2016), pp. 34-45
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An exploration of the determinants of the subjective well-being of Americans during the Great Recession
Caldera Sánchez, Aida; Tassot, Caroline - 2014
This paper uses data from the American Life Panel to understand the determinants of well-being in the United States during the Great Recession. It investigates how various dimensions of subjective wellbeing reflected in the OECD Better Life Framework impact subjective well-being. The results...
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Improving well-being in the United States
Caldera Sánchez, Aida; Lenain, Patrick; Fleche, Sarah - 2014
Life is quite good in the United States compared to other OECD countries, thanks to strong economic growth and technological progress having lifted average income to high levels. Nonetheless, there is evidence that the benefits from growth have not been sufficiently broad based. Self-reported...
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How taxes and welfare distort work incentives : static lifecycle and dynamic perspectives
Brewer, Mike; Dias, Mónica Costa; Shaw, Jonathan - 2013
Personal taxes and benefits affect the incentive to work over the lifecycle by altering income-age profiles, insuring against adverse shocks, and changing the returns to human capital. Previous work investigating the impact of taxes and benefits on work incentives has tended to ignore these...
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Female labor force participation in developing countries : improving employment outcomes for women takes more than raising labor market participation : good jobs are important too
Verick, Sher Singh - 2014
While women's labor force participation tends to increase with economic development, the relationship is not straightforward or consistent at the country level. There is considerably more variation across developing countries in labor force participation by women than by men. This variation is...
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Drivers of Change : How Intra-household Preferences Shape Employment Responses to Gender Reform
Abou Daher, Chaza; Field, Erica Marie; Swanson, Kendal M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
gender reforms, which have the potential to counteract legal gains in women's freedoms, and help explain why potential …
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Impacts of migration on time allocation of those who remain at home in rural Nepal
Yokying, Phanwin; Saksena, Sumeet; Fox, Jefferson M. - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 35 (2023) 7, pp. 2067-2106
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