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A Marriage Bar is the requirement that women working in certain jobs must leave that job when they marry. In the … required women to resign at marriage were introduced in several countries around the world, including Australia, Canada …. 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 … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …
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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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We utilize a natural experiment, an education reform increasing compulsory schooling from five to eight years in Turkey … against women. We find that husband's education lowers the probability of suffering physical, emotional and economic violence … behaviours such as drinking, gambling, and drug abuse. We also find that women whose mothers or whose husbands’ mothers …
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In this paper, we investigate the effect of the level of English skills on the labour market outcomes of Turkish women … occupational position of women in the Turkish labour market. …
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suggest that an increase in years of education causes to reduce the number of days hospitalized for both men and women … work for a randomly selected women. …
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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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