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. Greater in-/out-flows to/from private sector are observed regardless the gender of the employee. Once comparing women to the … for the public sector illustrate a systematically higher magnitude of mismatch. Pooled results seem to dominate when women … good job. Hence, policy implications regarding the allocation of jobs for women may arise. …
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This paper investigates whether female political representation in national parliaments influences climate change policy outcomes. Based on data from a large sample of countries, we demonstrate that female representation leads countries to adopt more stringent climate change policies. We exploit...
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division of labor, women were foremost in bearing the brunt of the increased demands on unpaid care work under the lockdown … conditions. At the same time, women were also overrepresented in informal employment and service sectors hard-hit by the pandemic … resulting in more severe job loss for female workers overall. In many labor markets, women constituted the majority of so …
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required women to resign at marriage were introduced in several countries around the world, including Australia, Canada …A Marriage Bar is the requirement that women working in certain jobs must leave that job when they marry. In the …. The third is to investigate the potential impacts of the Marriage Bar on women's behavior with respect to employment …
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the labor division between women and men and show that shocks may disrupt long-standing gender roles. The results are …
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employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest … round of the EBRD-World Bank Life in Transition Survey (LiTS) and of the Mongolian National Statistics Office Household … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the …
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for women. Traditional gender roles and disproportionate responsibility for family may make it difficult for women to be …
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The stagnancy of women's workforce participation in urban India is alarming and puzzling, considering the pace of … women can be explained by growing instances of officially reported crimes against women. We employ a fixed-effects strategy … approach and a border analysis. Our findings indicate that an additional sexual crime per 1000 women in a district reduces the …
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findings suggest that policies that seek to empower women and promote gender equality might paradoxically increase women …
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Accidents at Work for 2011-2019, we found that women presented longer standard durations (i.e., purely attached to physiological …, we found that women were more inefficient at lower levels of income, whereas in case of men, this occurred at higher … levels of income. These results were reinforced when considering that men and women do not recover from the same injury at …
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