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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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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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the labor division between women and men and show that shocks may disrupt long-standing gender roles. The results are …
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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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for women. Traditional gender roles and disproportionate responsibility for family may make it difficult for women to be …
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with partnership problems only for older women in cross sections, but for younger ones in fixed-effects specifications. In … superior partnership alternatives for women who out-earn their partners. …
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"Going Solo" and is particularly evident among women who are the focus of our study. In this paper we investigate the …
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In this paper we analyze the factors that explain attitudes towards intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) in … the international ones: approval of IPVAW is higher among women, people in rural areas, people in a disadvantaged socio … since the enactment of women’s suffrage. The most novel contribution of our work is the study of the variables at country …
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