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Does culture affect female labor supply? In this paper, we address this question using a recent approach to measuring the effects of culture on economic outcomes, i.e. the epidemiological approach. We focus on migrants, who come from different cultures, but who share a common economic and...
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With only 32% of active age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper middle-income country with one of the lowest rates of female labor force participation in the Latin America and the Caribbean region, and in the world. The rate of female labor participation is especially low in the...
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Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor … market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender … the global financial crisis had a less negative impact on women than it had on men. Both unadjusted and unexplained gender …
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losses for females. While gender differences in employment arise from females' high skill employment losses, becoming …
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The mounting evidence on the demographics of COVID-19 fatalities points to an overrepresentation of minorities and an underrepresentation of women. Using individual-level, race-disaggregated, and georeferenced death data collected by the Cook County Medical Examiner, we jointly investigate the...
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Identifying essential and frontline workers and understanding their characteristics is useful for policymakers and researchers in targeting social insurance and safety net policies in response to the COVID-19 crisis. We develop a working definition that may inform additional research and policy...
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In this paper, we first document trends in the gender composition of academic economists over the past 25 years, the … publishing, promotion, and tenure. While underlying gender differences can directly affect the relative productivity of men and … women, due to either differential constraints or preferences, productivity gaps do not fully explain the gender disparity in …
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Using a cluster randomized control trial, we study the role of women's social networks in improving female labor force participation. In the first treatment arm, a hyper-local digital job search platform service was offered to a randomly selected group of married couples (non-network treatment)...
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changes in unemployment and shifts in attitudes toward gender roles in the labor market. The results are not immediately …-level probability models of agreement with traditional gender roles over the period 1995 to 2021, including country and year fixed … effects. We find that an increase in unemployment is associated to more conservative views about gender roles in the labor …
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series stationary or at best mean-reverting. -- labour force participation rates ; gender ; fractional integration …
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