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The effect of COVID-19 on the gender gap in remote work
Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2024
We examine changes in the gender gap in working from home (WFH) in response to the unanticipated first wave of the … COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from the American Time Use Survey, we find a non-negligible widening of the gender gap with … WFH being more prevalent among women than among men. Respondents' job traits played a significant role in the gender gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014455133
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Irrigation and Culture: Gender Roles and Women’s Rights
Fredriksson, Per G.; Gupta, Satyendra Kumar - 2020
This paper proposes that ancestral use of irrigation reduces contemporary female labor force participation and female property rights. We test this hypothesis using an exogenous measure of irrigation and data from the Afrobarometer, cross-country data, the European Social Survey, the American...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294275
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COVID-19, Race, and Gender
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2021
The mounting evidence on the demographics of COVID-19 fatalities points to an overrepresentation of minorities and an underrepresentation of women. Us- ing individual-level, race-disaggregated, and georeferenced death data collected by the Cook County Medical Examiner, we jointly investigate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012492419
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Assessing gender gaps in employment and earnings in Africa: the case of Eswatini
Brixiová Schwidrowski, Zuzana; Imai, Susumu; Kangoye, … - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507662
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The Impact of Early Marriage on Women’s Employment in the Middle East and North Africa
Assaad, Ragui; Krafft, Caroline; Selwaness, Irene - 2017
Marriage is a central stage in the transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This paper builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women’s employment in MENA. Besides examining how different types of work are affected by early marriage (defined as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011642567
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Evaluating the Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on Women's Labor Market Outcomes: A Synthetic Difference-in-Differences Analysis
Wang, Yifan; Wang, Chunbei; Holmes, Chanita - 2025
Immigration continues to shape labor market dynamics, yet its gender-specific effects remain understudied. This study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015406926
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Maternity Leave
Regmi, Krishna; Wang, Le - 2022
Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a national basis. This chapter reviews various types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013411420
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Moving Up the Social Ladder? Wages of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants from Developing Countries
Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
results emphasize the significant moderating role of geographical origin, gender, and position in the wage distribution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013460018
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Breaking the Divide: Can Public Spending on Social Infrastructure Boost Female Employment in Italy?
Reljic, Jelena; Zezza, Francesco - 2024
on social infrastructure - including education, healthcare, childcare and social assistance - on the gender employment … gender employment gap is detected only in the South and among high-skilled women. These results stress the need for targeted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014485826
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Her Job, her Safety? Domestic Violence and Women's Economic Empowerment: Evidence from Ethiopia
Bedaso, Fenet Jima - 2024
Domestic violence against women is a pervasive public health problem in all countries regardless of cultural, economic, and political background. Yet, the prevalence of domestic violence is very high in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, I examine the effect of women's employment on domestic...
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