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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 estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A …, it shows that the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in …
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changes in the opportunities for health care and education in the Philippines from 1998 to 2007. …
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This systematic review covers 56 studies that measure the effects of school closures on learning outcomes during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and 20 studies that evaluate the impact of measures to reduce learning loss. It restricts attention to evaluations with credible control...
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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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education is not sufficient to achieve gender wage parity. Higher-paying jobs should be created by developing the service sector …This paper examines the factors influencing the gender wage gap by using an unbalanced crosscountry aggregated panel … the gender wage gap regardless of a country's development stage. While having more children widens the gender wage gap, as …
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, the gender difference is reversed in Viet Nam where stigma and discrimination associated with some diseases may more …. However, for the subsample of elders, the gender difference is not significant. …
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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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Gender gaps in labor market outcomes persist in South Asia. An open question is whether supply or demand side … experiment. Employers' gender restrictions are a larger constraint on women's job opportunities than supply-side decisions. At … higher levels of education, demand-side barriers relax, allowing women to qualify for more jobs but at lower salaries. On the …
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