This document provides Bank staff guidance on the selection of interventions to reduce violence, whether in the context … of stand-alone violence reduction operations or as components in other types of loans. These guidelines are a work in … progress, which will be expanded and modified as the Bank gains more experience in violence reduction activities. Actions to …

the contrary, men living farther away from urban and maquila jobs are more likely to work. However, women living in … greater isolation are highly concentrated in own-production agricultural activities, where women's skills are rewarded less … than comparable men's skills. Through concentration into this sector, women living in geographic isolation obtain worse …

This paper analyzes gender differences in the Chilean labor market, formally addressing the selection of individuals … into schooling levels and its impact on gender gaps. The paper utilizes a new and rich data set containing information on …' family background. Although the results show statistically significant gender differences in several dimensions of the …

This paper analyzes gender differences in three Chilean professional labor markets, business, law and medicine …, utilizing a new and rich data set collected for this purpose. The results show that differences in wages attributed to gender … gender effect and in Medicine, taking into account hours worked, size of firm and region also eliminates gender differences …

The gender of the household head has often been treated as an exogenous determinant of homeownership. This paper argues … although on average women have lower probability of being homeowners, women who head households (single, separated or divorced … household headship in order to properly address the gender effect on housing tenure. Estimating a bivariate probit model, the …

effects on outcomes for women trainees in a labor market with substantial gender differences. … fieldwork, the econometric work implements a two-stage matching procedure on propensity scores, gender and labor income. This … percent), gender occupational segregation reduces by 30 percent, and females' labor income improves by 93 percent (while males …

This paper explores the role of social networks in determining the participation of Bolivian women in income …-generating activities. The empirical analysis intends to explore the impact of this new social variable on the economic choices of women and …. Estimation results suggest that social networks are an effective channel through which women obtain access to salaried jobs …

programs and policies to prevent and deal with violence. This note focuses on domestic violence against women. The author …This document is one of a series of technical notes that describe the nature and magnitude of violence in the region … this type of violence and it is now apparent that a coordinated effort must be made in order to provide an effective and …

In this paper, the authors examine levels and trends of labor market outcomes for women in the 1990's using household … participation rates, the distribution of employment of women across sectors of the economy (formal versus informal), and earnings … countries. All of these findings suggest a fair degree of change in the role of women within households and in the labor market …