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Public Policies to Promote Productive Occupation and Increase Formality among the Moderately Poor: The Mexican Agenda

Sojo, Eduardo; Villarreal, Roberto - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2005

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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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Is It What You Inherited Or What You Learnt?

Lambert, Sylvie; van de Walle, Dominique - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 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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Inequalities, Agency, and Well-being: Conceptual Linkages and Measurement Challenges in Development

Hicks, Douglas A. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2004

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Measuring Human Well-being: Key Findings and Policy Lessons

Clark, David; McGillivray, Mark - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007

This Policy Brief is an outcome of the UNU-WIDER research project 'Social Development Indicators'. The overall aim of the project was to provide insights into how human well-being might be better conceptualized and, in particular, measured, by reviewing various concepts and measures and then...

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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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The Glass Ceiling in Europe: Why Are Women Doing Badly in the Labour Market?

Booth, Alison L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

Average gender pay gaps have absorbed the interest of economists for many years. More recently studies have begun to explore the degree to which observed gender wage gaps might differ across the wages distribution. The stylised facts from these studies, summarised in the first part of the paper,...

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