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Promoting gender equality to strengthen economic growth and resilience
André, Christophe - 2023
Women’s employment rates and wages are still lagging those of men across OECD countries, with average employment and wage gaps now around 15% and 12% respectively. Gaps narrowed at a relatively modest pace over the past decade, calling for further policy action. A lack of affordable...
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Determinants of female entrepreneurship in India
Daymard, Arnaud - 2015
This paper examines the nature and determinants of female entrepreneurship in India based on survey data. The first … part assesses basic characteristics of female entrepreneurship in India, while the subsequent sections analyse key … determinants of female entrepreneurship based on the literature, and test their importance at the state level in India with the …
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Determinants of the low female labour force participation in India
Sorsa, Piritta; Mareš, Jan; Didier, Mathilde; … - 2015
The low and declining female labour force participation rate in India despite strong growth over the past decade is … inclusive growth, and wellbeing. Assessing determinants of the labour force participation of women in India can open important … policy insights. This paper first describes key employment trends in India by gender. Then the potential determinants of …
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Chapter 5. Theories of Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action: A Survey
Fang, Hanming; Moro, Andrea - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 133-200). 2011
This chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative action. This literature suggests different explanations for the existence and persistence of group inequality. This survey highlights such differences and describes in these contexts the effects of...
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Anonymous job applications and hiring discrimination : anonymous job applications can level the playing field in access to jobs but cannot prevent all forms of discrimination
Rinne, Ulf - 2014
The use of anonymous job applications to combat hiring discrimination is gaining attention and interest. Results from a number of field experiments in European countries (France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden are considered here) shed light on their potential to reduce some of the...
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Anonymous job applications in Europe
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-20
Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications have gained attention and popularity to identify and combat this form of discrimination. To test whether their intended effects result in practice, in several European countries...
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Can elected minority representatives affect health worker visits? : evidence from India
Kaletski, Elizabeth; Prakash, Nishith; Zakaria, Intan … - In: Review of development economics 21 (2017) 1, pp. 67-102
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Does political reservation for minorities affect child labor? : evidence from India
Kaletski, Elizabeth; Prakash, Nishith - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 87 (2016), pp. 50-69
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Fighting gender inequality in Sweden
André, Christophe; Bourrousse, Hugo - 2017
Sweden ranks among the best OECD countries in terms of gender equality. Women have a high employment rate, outperform men in education and are well represented in government and parliament. Nevertheless, without further policy measures, achieving parity is still a distant prospect in several...
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Does Temporary Affirmative Action Produce Persistent Effects? A Study of Black and Female Employment in Law Enforcement
Miller, Amalia R.; Segal, Carmit - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 94 (2012) 4, pp. 1107-1125
This paper exploits variation in the timing and outcomes of employment discrimination lawsuits against U.S. law enforcement agencies to estimate the cumulative and persistent employment effects of temporary externally imposed affirmative action (AA). We find that AA increased black employment at...
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