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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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Does foreign aid in education foster gender equality in developing countries?

Maiga, Eugenie W. H. - 2014

This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …

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

Lastunen, Jesse; Mahieu, Antoine de; 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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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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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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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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