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physical tasks. These results suggest that ICT can lower gender inequality in the labor market by shifting the labor demand … interactive tasks, suggesting that gender differences in education may have limited female labor supply for the most innovative …This paper studies the effects of firms' investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) on their …
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This paper uses over 20 years of data from Indonesia's labor force survey to study trends in female labor force participation (FLFP). We find that younger women in urban areas have increased their labor force participation in recent years, largely through wage employment, while younger women in...
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A growing body of scholarly literature has attempted to measure and value unpaid care work in various countries, but perhaps only the government statistical agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom have seriously undertaken periodic and systematic measures of the time spent on unpaid...
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In cities with conservative norms or high crime, female workers may face greater restrictions on their, physical mobility. This limits women’s labor market opportunities and the pool of workers that firms, can attract. In this study, we experimentally vary access to a transport service in...
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promoting gender equality in education and health. However, progress has not been as remarkable in advancing women’s rights on … asset ownership and control, which is critical for securing gender equity in economic participation and opportunity, and … sexdisaggregated data on the topic. The Evidence and Data for Gender Equality (EDGE) initiative aims to develop standardized methods …
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key inputs in the technology to raise children, and therefore may affect the interplay between parenthood and labor market … of lower wages and weaker social protection, and a technology to produce child quality that combines time, material …
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for all individuals of the same age and level of education, so it ignores labor market intermittency because of childbirth … and child-rearing - a critical omission when analyzing gender differences in earnings. This paper constructs a better … can be generated using commonly available data on labor force participation rates by age and gender to gauge the …
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Because of its high incidence and potential threat to social cohesion, youth unemployment is a global concern. This study uses a randomized controlled trial to analyze the effectiveness of a demand-driven vocational training program for disadvantaged youth in Mongolia. Mongolia, a transitional...
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possible determinants of this increase. Among those determinants are changes in education, family structure, fertility, as well … as changes in socioeconomic environment including wages, returns to working at home, preferences, and technology, among …
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