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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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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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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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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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A Cohort-Based Analysis of Labor Force Participation for Advanced Economies
Grigoli, Francesco; Koczan, Zsoka; Topalova, Petia - 2018
Advanced economies are in the midst of a major demographic transition, with the number of elderly rising precipitously relative to the working-age population. Yet, despite the acceleration in demographic shifts in the past decade, advanced economies experienced markedly different trajectories in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011915222
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528302
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A Broken Social Elevator? Employment Outcomes of First- and Second-generation Immigrants in Belgium
Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - 2020
This paper provides a comprehensive quantitative assessment of the employment performance of first- and second-generation immigrants in Belgium compared to that of natives. Using detailed quarterly data for the period 2008-2014, we find not only that first-generation immigrants face a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169105
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Women at Work in the Pre-Civil War United States: An Analysis of Unreported Family Workers
Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn Halenda - 2020
Rates of labor force participation in the US in the second half of the nineteenth century among free women were exceedingly (and implausibly) low, about 11 percent. This is due, in part, to social perceptions of working women, cultural and societal expectations of female’s role, and lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237648
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Ethnic identity and immigrants' labour market outcomes
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Cheng, Zhiming; … - 2021
The objective of this paper is to analyse how immigrants' ethnic identity correlates with their labour market outcomes. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to work more hours but are not given the opportunity),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012417869