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Why Are Women Working so Much More in Canada? : An International Perspective

Tsounta, Evridiki - 2006

This paper analyzes the role of the tax and benefit system in spurring the impressive increase in Canadian female labor participation in the last decade. Using annual panel data for 10 large industrial countries over the period 1980-2001, I find that reforms in the Canadian tax and benefit...

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Gendered taxes : the interaction of tax policy with gender equality

Coelho, Maria; Davis, Aieshwarya; Klemm, Alexander; … - 2022

This paper provides an overview of the relation between tax policy and gender equality, covering labor, capital and wealth, as well as consumption taxes. It considers implicit and explicit gender biases and corrective taxation. On labor taxes, we discuss the well-established findings on female...

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What can boost female labor force participation in Asia?

Kinoshita, Yuko; Guo, Fang - 2015

towards non-regular employment despite women's high education levels. This paper empirically examines what helps Japan and … Korea to increase FLFP by type (i.e., regular vs. non-regular employment), using the SVAR model. In so doing, we compare … tend to reduce the proportion of regular female employment in Japan and Korea, (ii) the persistent gender wage gap …

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Women workers in India : why so few among so many?

Das, Sonali; Jain Chandra, Sonali; Kochhar, Kalpana; … - 2015

This paper examines the determinants of female labor force participation in India, against the backdrop of India having one of the lowest participation rates for women among peer countries. Using extensive Indian household survey data, we model the labor force participation choices of women,...

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Individual choice or policies? : drivers of female employment in Europe

Christiansen, Lone; Lin, Huidan; Pereira, Joana; … - 2016

control for factors that influence personal choice, we re-examine the determinants of female employment in Europe. The results … and number of children. However, even after controlling for these factors, policies are also key drivers of female … employment …

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Can women save Japan?

Steinberg, Chad Bennett; Nakane, Masato - 2012

Japan's potential growth rate is steadily falling with the aging of its population. This paper explores the extent to which raising female labor participation can help slow this trend. Using a cross-country database we find that smaller families, higher female education, and lower marriage rates...

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China's rebalancing and gender inequality

Brussevich, Mariya; Dabla-Norris, Era; Li, Bin - 2021

This paper examines gender inequality in the context of structural transformation and rebalancing in China. We document declining women's relative wages and labor force participation in China during the last two decades, despite rapid growth and expansion of the service sector. Using household...

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Foreign Help Wanted : Easing Japan’s Labor Shortages

Ganelli, Giovanni - 2015

Data and anecdotal evidence suggest that Japan is suffering from labor shortages, which are large in an international perspective, have a negative impact on potential growth, and reduce the effectiveness of monetary and fiscal stimulus. This paper focuses on policy options to ease Japan’s...

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Countercyclical fiscal policy and gender employment gap : evidence from the G-7 countries

Akitoby, Bernardin; Honda, Jiro; Miyamoto, Hiroaki - 2019

Would countercyclical fiscal policy during recessions improve or worsen the gender employment gap? We give an answer to … this question by exploring the state-dependent impact of fiscal spending shocks on employment by gender in the G-7 … would, on average, lift female employment by 1 percent, while increasing male employment by 0.6 percent. Consequently such a …

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Is technology widening the gender gap? : automation and the future of female employment

Brussevich, Mariya; Dabla-Norris, Era; Khalid, Salma - 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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