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We examine the gender legacy of past institutions by comparing Italian municipalities located in a narrow band across the borders between the former Papal States on the one hand, and the former Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Duchy of Modena on the other. Our results show that a century after the...
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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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, and the women worked closer to home. Next, due to the common pool nature of irrigation water, historically irrigation has … involved more frequent warfare. This raised the social status of men and restricted women's movement. These two mechanisms have …
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This chapter argues that gender equality and economic development are tightly intertwined, and that gender aspects should be an essential consideration for economic development. The chapter starts by developing a conceptual framework explaining how gender equality and economic development...
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While education and labor force participation of women have been increased, there is still a substantial gender gap in … men and women. This finding also holds in a recursive multivariate probit model that accounts for potential endogeneity of …
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evidence suggest that it may be problematic for women to reach a white collar high skill job, also in the more protected public … periods of up to 20 years (for Egypt), we examine the evolution of the glass ceiling problem for women resorting to the …
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We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian … fathers. This gender specialisation is mostly driven by opposing job location responses of men and women to individual …, women give up non-local jobs regardless of their earnings level, their partner's labour market status and local economic …
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This paper uses data from the BRFSS over the period 2014-2019 to analyse the impact of removing surgical requirements 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,...
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It is a fact that transgender people experience severe discrimination in various forms not only in their everyday lives but also in their working lives, especially when transitioning. It seems that Europe is slowly changing over the years as there are constant calls to tackle this complex issue...
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probability of women vis-'a-vis men of finding high-paying jobs over the life-cycle. Jobs are classified as highly-remunerated if … life-cycle for low- and middle-wage workers. However, women's access to high-paying occupations becomes significantly more …
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