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"Central Banking, Monetary Policy and Gender uniquely explores the ways in which monetary policies, changes in interest … to gender, investigating issues of power, income, wealth inequality and labour market dynamics. Editors Louis …. Chapters discuss the role of monetary policy in the gender pension gap; the impact of inflation reduction policies on female …
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"Written in an accessible style with comprehensive coverage, the Handbook of Gender and Technology provides an … excellent foundation examining gender equity in technology fields. Covering the state of the art, chapters consider three key … influences - environmental, identity, and individual - to highlight interventions to address the gender gap in technology. Using …
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"This timely book offers a fascinating contemporary analysis of research into the gender pay gap while also providing … attempted to elucidate this challenging topic. Explaining the Gender Wage Gap examines often-neglected factors that highlight … neoclassical discrimination theories whilst analysing models used to calculate the gender wage gap. They conclude that modern …
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"This timely book expertly analyses the persistence of gender inequalities in work. Despite the progress made through … frameworks regulating work and employment relations, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated gender divides in labour … markets. The authors present innovative ways to promote gender equality in a variety of industrial relations systems, welfare …
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The proliferation of new information technologies throughout the world has raised some important questions for …
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Contents: 1. Gender and entrepreneurial activity : an overview / Albert N. Link -- 2. The psychology of the … entrepreneur and the gender gap in entrepreneurship / Olga Bentsson, Tino Sanandaji and Magnus Johannesson -- 3. Female immigrant … entrepreneurship in Germany / David B. Audretsch, Erik E. Lehmann, and Katharine Wirsching -- 4. Gender and entrepreneurship : selected …
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the developing world and an exploration of its effects on those countries, particularly on each one's economic management … economies into the world economy. This well-integrated compilation of both original case studies and thematic essays will be of … socio-economic developments in the wider world. Aid workers, policy makers, and social science researchers will also find …
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1. Introduction -- Section I the distribution of foodstuffs -- 2. Costa rica -- 3. Armenia -- 4. Mali -- 5. Zambia -- Section II the distribution of pharmaceuticals -- 6. Jamaica -- 7. Vietnam -- Section III the distribution of services: international money transfers and tv programmes -- 8....
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Contents: 1. Contextualizing entrepreneurship in-between emerging economies and developing countries / Marcela Ramírez-Pasillas, Ethel Brundin and Magdalena Markowska -- Part I: Contextualizing the top-down driving forces for entrepreneurial practices -- 2. The political economy of indigenous...
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This book draws together recent contributions by Sanjaya Lall--leading authority on international investment, technology and industrial policy--on competitiveness and its major determinants. It draws upon his wide experience of competitiveness analysis in Asian and African countries and his...
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