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Booth, Alison L.; Coles, Melvyn B. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

differences in labour supply responses to tax policy can explain differences in aggregate labour supply and years of education …

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Microsimulation of tax-benefit systems in the Global South: A comparative assessment

Lastunen, Jesse; de Mahieu, Antoine; Gasior, Katrin; … - 2024

This paper analyses the effectiveness of tax-benefit systems in reducing poverty and inequality across 13 countries in … to poverty and inequality. Additionally, we assess gender disparities in outcomes, quantify the distributional effects of …

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Is it what you inherited or what you learnt? Intergenerational linkage and interpersonal inequality in Senegal

Lambert, Sylvie; Ravallion, Martin; Van de Walle, Dominique - 2011

land and housing bring little gain to mean consumption and play little role in explaining inequality. Inheritance of non …-land assets and the education and occupation of parents (especially the mother) and their choices about children's schooling are … more important to adult welfare than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident. …

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Puzzle me this? The Vietnamese reverse gender education gap

Mergoupis, Thanos; Phan, Van; Sessions, John G. - 2018

education four years later. We exploit the longitudinal elements of the Viet Nam Access to Resources Household Survey to …

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Scrutinizing the sticky floor/glass ceiling phenomena in the informal labour market in Cameroon: An unconditional quantile regression analysis

Wirba, Ebenezer Lemven; Akem, Fiennasah Annif'; Baye, … - 2021

Cameroon's informal labour market largely harbours female workers, engaged mainly in low-productivity and low-paying jobs. We investigate the sticky floor and glass ceiling phenomena in the informal labour market as a whole and across its segments. We use the 2010 Cameroon labour market survey,...

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Gender differences in economics PhD field specializations with correlated choices

Sierminska, Eva; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2021

We model the process of field specialization choice among beginning economists within a multivariate logit framework that accommodates single and dual primary field specializations and incorporates correlations among field specialization choices. Conditioning on personal, economic, and...

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Firm size and union threat effects across genders : evidence from NLSY79

Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2017

It is evident that both male and female workers in medium/larger establishments receive not only higher wages but also have a higher probability of participating in benefit programs than those in smaller establishments. This reinforces the well-documented 'size' effect. Further, the firm size...

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COVID-19 : a crisis of the female self-employed

Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; Seebauer, Johannes - 2021

We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the governmentmandated measures to contain its spread, affect the self-employed - particularly women - in Germany. For our analysis, we use representative, real-time survey data in which respondents were asked about their...

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Gendered effects of employment protection on earnings mobility

Bárcena Martín, Elena; Medina-Claros, Samuel; … - 2020

This paper explores potential gendered effects of employment protection on earnings mobility, differentiating between upward and downward movements. We conduct a micro-macro mobility analysis for 23 European countries over the economic downturn period 2008–2014. The results confirm that,...

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Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs: Females Trapped at the Bottom of the Ladder

Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females compete for the same job positions. They are primarily interested in the best-paid jobs. A structural relationship of the model can be used to empirically recover the...

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