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We study the aggregate labor force participation behavior of women over a 25-year period in Turkey using a synthetic panel approach. In our decomposition of age, year, and cohort effects, we use three APC models that have received close scrutiny of the demography community. We rely on...
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development level rises. For instance, the negative effects of the refugee shock on employment and labor force participation of … refugees on employment of men is negative for the least developed regions, it is positive for highly developed regions. Our …
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. Despite the massive size of the migrant influx, no adverse effects on the average wages of men or women or on total employment … of men are observed. For women, however, total employment falls - which results mainly from the elimination of part … effects on complementary workers in the formal sector. We estimate about one-to-one replacement in employment for native men …
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We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … Indian Parliament. -- political identity ; gender ; mortality ; health ; social preferences ; India …
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This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes …
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regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman … margin in India where a substantial number of incumbents do not contest re-election. There is no significant entry of new …
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in India. We find that religious minority leaders (Muslims) improve coordination, while majority leaders (Hindus) do not …
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Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India …
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We study the effects of extreme temperature shocks on political participation using data from Indian elections between 2009 and 2017. Taking advantage of localized, high-frequency data on land surface temperatures, we find that areas with greater cumulative exposure to extreme temperatures...
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native-refugee gap in men's employment in Turkey (in favor of natives) is much smaller than that reported for most developed … countries. Moreover, men's employment peaks quite early (one year) after arrival and remains there, whereas women's employment … native-refugee gap in men's (women's) paid employment reduces to 4.7 (4.0) percentage points (pp). These small gaps conceal …
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