Social protection policies regarding sex work in The Netherlands use ‘age’ as an instrument to create binaries between … adults and young people. The concept ‘chronological age’ assumes that age is a static feature and supports the process of … categorization; however, age is a socially constructed phenomenon and has an embodied experience that is gendered. The objective of …

data include gender indicators (mostly female-male gaps) in education, health and the labour market and show lack of … progress or even declines in gender equality in these periods of crises in the eight countries analyzed. Moreover, a control … group of countries is used as counterfactual, indicating better performance on gender equality and hence, a diverging trend …

are sharp gender differences. For men, the importance of education increases while for women it declines suggesting the …Kenya has experienced a sharp decline in formal sector employment and a corresponding increase in informal sector … employment. This paper examines the role played by various factors in influencing the sorting of individuals into different …

have stronger impact on inequality than regulatory quality. Education for all, a proxy for social institutions, has a …The paper examines how legal, economic, political and social institutions fare with different measures of inequality in …, political and social. Among legal institutions, rule of law and control for corruption have a stronger impact on inequality than …

, education and skills formation and inter-company relations), this paper also takes into account foreign direct investments … continuation of this variety of capitalism is likely to result in excessive inequality and severe environmental degradation. The …

have stronger impact on inequality than regulatory quality. Education for all, a proxy for social institutions, has a …The paper examines how legal, economic, political and social institutions fare with different measures of inequality in …, political and social. Among legal institutions, rule of law and control for corruption have a stronger impact on inequality than …

larger than a simple OLS regression would suggest. Hence, policies to expand education in Sub-Saharan Africa should not …