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Can maquila booms reduce poverty? : evidence from Honduras
De Hoyos, Rafael E. - 2008
"This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila...
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Globalization and the gender wage gap
Oostendorp, Remco H. - 2004
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Gender wage differentials in Brazil : / trends over a turbulent era
Arabsheibani, G. R. - 2003
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Who benefits and how much? : how gender affects welfare impacts of a booming textile industry
Nicita, Alessandro - 2003
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Gender Wage Gap in Thailand
World Bank - 2022
The gender wage gap in Thailand is much less significant than in most countries in the world. The average hourly wage … among female workers, in fact, slightly surpasses that of males. This highly equitable gender wage pattern is seen at all … females in low-wage jobs is as high as in high-wage jobs. One important factor driving this gender wage parity is the higher …
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Time Use Data and the Living Standards Measurement Study
Acharya, Meena - 1982
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Can Bonus Payments Improve the Quality of Health Care?
World Bank - 2012
The goal was to see whether linking bonus payments to performance had a positive effect. Rwanda, which was forced to rebuild its institutions after the 1994 civil war and genocide, began piloting programs in 2001 to give health clinics cash bonuses for meeting certain healthcare objectives, such...
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Does Linking Teacher Pay to Student Performance Improve Results?
World Bank - 2012
Educators and education policy makers are concerned with creating the best possible learning environment for students. How to do this, especially in primary school, where reading, writing and mathematical skills are first acquired, is the subject of policy debates in many parts of the world....
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Gender disparities in Africa's labor market
Kolev, Alexandre (contributor); Filipiak, Ewa (contributor);  … - 2010
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Sticky feet : how labor market frictions shape the impact of international trade on jobs and wages
Hollweg, Claire H. - 2014
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