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Gender Inequality in a Globalizing World
Seguino, Stephanie - EconWPA - 2005
effects on growth and well- being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example … growth was rapid, it was not enough to produce greater gender equality. A concentration of women in mobile export industries … that face severe competition from other low-wage countries reduces their bargaining power and inhibits closure of gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412981
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Women, Microfinance, and Savings: Lessons and Proposals
Vonderlack, Rebecca; Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001
Microfinance—both credit and savings—has potential to improve the well- being of poor women in developing countries. This paper explores practical ways to achieve that potential. Based on lessons from informal saving mechanisms that women already use, the paper proposes two savings services...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062414
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Market Forces and Sex Discrimination
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David; Troske, Kenneth R. - EconWPA - 1998
We report new evidence on the existence of sex discrimination in wages and whether competitive market forces act to reduce or eliminate discrimination. Specifically, we use plant- and firm-level data to examine the relationships between profitability, growth and ownership changes, product market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408292
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Ingresos y Microempresarias en Chile
Huaita, Franklin; VAlenzuela, Patricio - EconWPA - 2005
Utilizando los datos de la encuesta de Caracterización Socioeconómica CASEN 2000, este trabajo evalúa el impacto en la generación de ingresos de una mujer que logra convertirse en microempresaria en Chile, basándose en técnicas paramétricas y no paramétricas. Los resultados son robustos...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408343
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Hiring discrimination in the French financial sector: an econometric analysis on field experiment data
Emmanuel, DUGUET; Pascale, PETIT - EconWPA - 2004
We study the determinants of hiring gender discrimination in the French financial sector through a controlled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408369
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Participación femenina en el mercado de trabajo: efectos sobre la distribución del ingreso en el Uruguay
Rossi, Maximo; Gonzalez, Cecilia - EconWPA - 2004
En este trabajo se analiza como ha impactado la mayor articipación femenina en el mercado de trabajo uruguayo sobre la equidad durante el período comprendido entre 1986 y 1997. El estudio se realiza para Montevideo y para el Resto del País Urbano. Los resultados, obtenidos a partir de la...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408375
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Ingresos y Microempresarias
Huaita, Franklin; VAlenzuela, Patricio - EconWPA - 2005
Utilizando los datos de la encuesta de Caracterización Socioeconómica CASEN 2000, este trabajo evalúa el impacto en la generación de ingresos de una mujer que logra convertirse en microempresaria en Chile, basándose en técnicas paramétricas y no paramétricas. Los resultados son robustos...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408381
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A double gender-family inequality phenomenon in the international mobility of young researchers
Moguérou, Philippe - EconWPA - 2004
In this paper, we raise the question of gender differences in the geographic mobility of young researchers. We try to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556413
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Gender Wage Gap and Segregation in Late Transition
Jurajda, Stepan - EconWPA - 2001
-discrimination policies aimed at reducing the gender wage gap. The efficacy of these policies depends on the relative size of the gap … sets from the Czech Republic and Slovakia are used to provide such detailed gender wage gap decomposition. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556832
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WOMEN’S LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION AND THE DYNAMICS OF TRADITION
Hazan, Moshe; Maoz, Yishay D. - EconWPA - 2005
We present a model in which the social norms regarding women’s labor force participation (LFP) differ from the norms concerning men’s. Assuming that these norms depend on past rates of women LFP creates a gradual increase in women LFP.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556837