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What is Driving Women's Financial Inclusion Across Countries?
Deléchat, Corinne - 2018
Using a broad set of macroeconomic country characteristics to supplement a new and comprehensive micro-level dataset for 140 countries, we identify structural factors, policies, and individual characteristics that are associated with financial inclusion-in general, and for women in particular....
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Gender Inequality and Economic Growth : Evidence from Industry-Level Data
Bertay, Ata Can - 2020
We study whether higher gender equality facilitates economic growth by enabling better allocation of a valuable resource: female labor. By allocating female labor to its more productive use, we hypothesize that reducing gender inequality should disproportionately benefit industries with...
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Tackling Legal Impediments to Women's Economic Empowerment
Christopherson, Katharine; Yiadom, Audrey; Johnson, Juliet - 2022
It is well established that a wide range of legal impediments in countries’ domestic laws have prevented women from achieving full economic empowerment, which in turn has negative macroeconomic implications. In many countries, laws often reflect and perpetuate gender norms that limit women’s...
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Sex Discrimination and Growth
Esteve-Volart, Berta - 2021
This paper argues that sex discrimination is an inefficient practice. We model sex discrimination as the complete exclusion of females from the labor market or as the exclusion of females from managerial positions. The former implies a reduction in GDP per capita; the latter distorts the...
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Gender Equality and Electoral Violence in Africa : Unlocking the Peacemaking Potential of Women
Ouedraogo, Rasmané - 2019
We examine the impact of gender equality on electoral violence in Africa using micro-level data from the sixth round of … Afrobarometer surveys. The sample covers 30 countries. We find that gender equality is associated with lower electoral violence … correlated with a reduction of the probability of electoral violence across the continent by around 4.2 percentage points. Our …
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Closing Gender Gaps in India : Does Increasing Womens' Access to Finance Help?
Khera, Purva - 2018
Gender gaps in womens' economic opportunities-labor market and entrepreneurship-have remained high inIndia. Lack of adequate collateral limits women entrepreneurs' ability to access formal finance, leaving them torely on informal sources, constraining their growth. A small-open economy DSGE...
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Fintech, Female Employment, and Gender Inequality
Loko, Boileau; Yang, Yuanchen - 2022
Fintech, which delivers financial services digitally, promises to promote financial inclusion and close the gender gap. Using a novel fintech dataset for 114 economies worldwide, this paper shows that fintech adoption significantly improves female employment and reduces gender inequality, the...
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The Heavy Economic Toll of Gender-Based Violence : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Ouedraogo, Rasmane; Stenzel, David - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns have led to a rise in gender-based violence. In this paper, we explore the economic … consequences of violence against women in sub-Saharan Africa using large demographic and health survey data collected pre … violence by 1 percentage point can reduce economic activities (as proxied by nightlights) by up to 8 percent. This economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013298752
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Inequality in Financial Inclusion and Income Inequality
Aslan, Goksu - 2017
We investigate the link between gender inequality in financial inclusion and income inequality, with three contributions to the recent literature. First, using a micro-dataset covering 146,000 individuals in over 140 countries, we construct novel, synthetic indices of the intensity of financial...
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Is Technology Widening the Gender Gap? Automation and the Future of Female Employment
Brussevich, Mariya - 2019
Using individual level data on task composition at work for 30 advanced and emerging economies, we find that women, on average, perform more routine tasks than men?tasks that are more prone to automation. To quantify the impact on jobs, we relate data on task composition at work to occupation...
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