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part of the gender earnings gap and mitigate high female propensity to self-employment. Our findings suggest that policies …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 …
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in reducing gender gap in employment. …
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show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to … fathers. This gender specialisation is mostly driven by opposing job location responses of men and women to individual …
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to change legal gender. In many states transgender people are forced to undergo surgical procedures if they wish to … change their gender on ID documents, which can be invasive, expensive, and is not always desired. In the present work state … highlight the detrimental economic impact of surgical requirements for transgender people to be able to reassign gender on birth …
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gender neutral. Given the large pre-existing gender gaps in employment, in absolute terms, more men lost employment than … employed than men who were employed pre-lockdown. India has amongst the most unequal gender division of household work globally …
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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...
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for low female work participation. The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) Employment Unemployment Survey (EUS) unit … market participation through gender lens. Results show that women’s education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work … been said that increase in female enrolment in schooling is one of the reasons of the recent declining phenomenon of female …
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The paper initiates a research agenda to study new developments of the effects of sexual orientation and gender … family support all along the sexual orientation and gender identity issues. Contrary to the earlier literature, the most … gender identity, and (iv) evaluate how distastes, stereotypes, and positive workplace actions affect trans people's labour …
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child on gender inequality from the perspectives of labor market outcomes and its mechanisms. Results show that becoming a … work in the formal sector. Moreover, social norms towards gender roles lead mothers to devote more time to housework and …
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The impact of globalization on developing countries has been debated: While the "compensation hypothesis" suggests that … globalization increases the need for public employees, the "efficiency hypothesis" states that the size of government should be … developing countries and new innovative bureaucracy and globalization indicators to find robust evidence for the "efficiency …
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