is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate … of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel … of data for 70 countries from 1981 to 1999, we do find that income instability results in a lower poverty reduction for a …

for women's empowerment. Available results of impact studies call for circumspection; microfinance can free women from … the disparities between men and women, but also among women themselves. …

period, the MFI does not co-finance projects with mainstream banks and loan size is gender-insensitive. In the second period …, the MFI does co-finance above-ceiling projects with mainstream banks, and we observe a gender gap in loan size. The … results suggest that co-financing leads the originally gender-neutral MFI to import disparate treatment from mainstream banks. …

Despite decades of gender-balanced recruitment and clear-cut criteria for promotion based on meritocracy, women in … aims to explore the mechanisms fostering women's rarity in top positions within French accounting firms in terms of … former and often implying a derailment of women's careers from a very early stage, will be explored. It is suggested that …

the observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less …Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This … and a team-based payment scheme. We find that women are more likely than men to select team-based compensation in our …

The effects of women's strong investments in career and their relative positions on the household division of labor … female investment in career, and look into the possible effect on the gender division of labor, particularly the male share …

) perspective. It provides some empirical evidence of the role played by age and gender in individuals' situation on the labour …, and their differentiation by age and gender. Second, it offers a conceptualization of time and irreversibility which helps …

driven by women's needs for widowhood insurance. We use a duration model of birth intervals to show that women most exposed …

As evidence of the continuing interest raised by "board gender diversity", major studies (Catalyst, 2008; World … the imbalance of women on boards and the need to address this issue. Moreover, our analysis of these reports indicates … that the low proportion of women observed on corporate boards varies across countries, which raises the question as to why …

offers in computing in order to measure gender and origin discrimination. We found that - out of 28 possible comparisons …