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COVID-19, race, and gender
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2021
The mounting evidence on the demographics of COVID-19 fatalities points to an overrepresentation of minorities and an underrepresentation of women. Us- ing individual-level, race-disaggregated, and georeferenced death data collected by the Cook County Medical Examiner, we jointly investigate the...
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Irrigation and culture : gender roles and women's rights
Fredriksson, Per; Gupta, Satyendra Kumar - 2020
This paper proposes that ancestral use of irrigation reduces contemporary female labor force participation and female property rights. We test this hypothesis using an exogenous measure of irrigation and data from the Afrobarometer, cross-country data, the European Social Survey, the American...
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Assessing gender gaps in employment and earnings in Africa : the case of Eswatini
Brixiova, Zuzana; Imai, Susumu; Kangoye, Thierry; … - 2021
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 … the global financial crisis had a less negative impact on women than it had on men. Both unadjusted and unexplained gender …
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The effect of COVID-19 on the gender gap in remote work
Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2024
We examine changes in the gender gap in working from home (WFH) in response to the unanticipated first wave of the … COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from the American Time Use Survey, we find a non-negligible widening of the gender gap with … WFH being more prevalent among women than among men. Respondents' job traits played a significant role in the gender gap …
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The long-term effect of FIFA World Cup on gender gap in education and employment : evidence from Vietnam
Cuong Viet Nguyen; Tran, Anh Ngoc - 2021
in reducing gender gap in employment. …
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Returns to education and female work force participation Nexus : evidence from India
Kanjilal-Bhaduri, Sanghamitra; Pastore, Francesco - 2018
market participation through gender lens. Results show that women’s education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work …
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The impact of early marriage on women's employment in the Middle East and North Africa
Asʿad, Rāǧī; Krafft, Caroline; Selwaness, Irene - 2017
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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Growth constraints and structural diversification for Kyrgyzstan economy : policy analysis of key reforms and its implications
Das, Gouranga Gopal; Ginting, Edimon; Horridge, Mark; … - 2023
Kyrgyzstan economy have undergone transition from a different economic system in the 1990s until now. For stimulating a diversified long-run growth in Kyrgyzstan, the region needs to overcome spatial fragmentation by integrating the regions for economic development translating into national...
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Is self-employment for migrants? : evidence from Italy
Brunetti, Marianna; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2023 - This draft: July 2023
Using a unique Italian dataset covering the period 2004-2020, we assess the immigrant-native gap in entrepreneurship and investigate channels behind it. The data allows us to account for many observable characteristics as well as for risk aversion, which is usually not observed, yet crucial for...
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Impacts of COVID-19 on the self-employed
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2021
gender that favor men, by marital status and gender that favor married men over married women, and by gender, marital, and … forced out of the labor force to care for children as prescribed by gender norms and the division and specialization of labor …
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