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The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy literature and recent data suggest something quite different: that over the...
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women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a … employment: whereas in high-income economies reduced employment in contact-intensive services had a large impact on women, this … sector plays a minor role in low-income countries. Another difference is that women's employment rebounded much more quickly …
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Fifty years ago, China sent more than 16 million urban youths aged 16-19 to rural villages to work and they spent between 1 and 10 years there. This is known as the "sent-down youth" (SDY) program. This paper examines how this internal migration impacted rural economic development in the regions...
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Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women's careers … around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? Using longitudinal … that expanded paid leave from 30 weeks in 1989 to 52 weeks in 1993. The representation of women in top positions has only …
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longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a …-employed women who were directly affected by government-imposed restrictions and bore an increased childcare burden due to school and …
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disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India … gender and needs commensurate interventions. …
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losses for females. While gender differences in employment arise from females' high skill employment losses, becoming …
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, differential effects by gender, couple status, and parental status exist. Coupled women were less likely to be working than coupled … men, while single women were more likely to be working than single men. However, fathers of school-age children who …
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share, but overall, the gender childcare gap (the difference between the share of childcare done by women and the share done … families with young children have been doing the equivalent of a working week in childcare. Women have been doing the greater …
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the gender gaps in paid and unpaid work through the lockdown and recovery phases. The first month of the national lockdown …, April 2020, saw a large contraction in employment for both men and women, where more men lost jobs in absolute terms …. Employment has recovered by August 2020 for men. However, for women, the likelihood of being employed is 9.5 percentage points …
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