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Migration, education and the gender gap in labour force participation
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2014
education and migration have a significant association with the gender gap in labour force participation in Tajikistan … gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors - international migration and education - on the … participation. Both women acquiring greater access to education and men increasing their migration abroad contribute to reducing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360289
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Changes in the forsaken schooling and migration relationship in Tajikistan
Abdulloev, Ilhom - 2020
We examine how the forsaken schooling phenomenon in migration evolved over time in Tajikistan. After completing … compulsory schooling at ages 16-17, young men in Tajikistan are forsaking professional education because of opportunities to … to professional education in migrant-sending Tajikistan. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243452
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Gender discrimination in the allocation of migrant household resources
Antman, Francisca M. - 2015
This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of … decision-making power over intrahousehold resource allocation. The endogeneity of migration is addressed with a difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472500
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What explains the stagnation of female labor force participation in urban India?
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - 2013
1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force …'s education, stigmas against educated women engaging in menial work, and falling selectivity of highly educated women. On the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010125858
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STEM occupations and the gender gap: what can we learn from job tasks?
Speer, Jamin D. - 2020
Policymakers often promote the importance of STEM jobs but are concerned about the underrepresentation of women and minorities in these jobs. However, there is no agreed-upon definition of STEM jobs. I use occupation task data from O*Net to analyze the STEM task content of occupations, drawing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294749
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Women's careers and family formation
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Walther, Selma - 2022
employee retention, staff engagement, job complementarities, coworkers, hospitals, endogeneityAThis paper discusses research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys methods used to obtain causal identification, and provides an overview of the...
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Connecting to economic opportunity? : the role of public transport in promoting women's employment in Lima
Martinez, Daniel; Mitnik, Oscar A.; Salgado, Edgar; … - 2018
Limited access to safe transportation is one of the greatest challenges to labor force participation faced by women in developing countries. This paper quantifies the causal impacts of improved urban transport systems in women´s employment outcomes, looking at Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955688
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The labor market effects of drug-related violence in a transit country
Ham, Andrés; Ruiz, Juanita - 2024
We estimate the effects of drug-related violence on individual labor market outcomes in a transit country. Transit countries do not have enough market power to determine the global supply or demand of drugs yet must deal with the consequences from drug trafficking activities. We implement a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014581409
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COVID-19 and the employment gender gap
Fukai, Taiyo; Ikeda, Masato; Kawaguchi, Daiji; … - 2021
This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected female employment in Japan. Our estimates indicate that the employment rate of married women with children decreased by 4 percentage points, while that of those without children decreased by only 1 percentage point, implying that increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612860
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China's 2008 Labor Contract Law : implementation and implications for China's workers
Gallagher, Mary; Giles, John; Park, Albert; Wang, Meiyan - 2013
highly correlated with the level of education, especially for migrants. Although higher labor costs may have had a negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009788916