This paper examines the macroeconomic interaction between informality and gender inequality in the labor market. A … dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model is built to study the impact of gender-targeted policies on female labor force … participation, female formal employment, gender wage gap, as well as on aggregate economic outcomes. The model is estimated using …

This paper shows that during the 1990s, and before the 1998-2000 border war with Eritrea, the gender gap in education … in Eritrea has widened on the national level, and large regional disparities have persisted. The gender gap appears to be … linked to lower female teacher participation and limited employment opportunities. The widening of the gender gap is likely …

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 …

of Friedrich Nietzsche, that ties poverty and inequality to unethical behavior of the strong toward the weak. The paper … contributes to an understanding of why poverty and inequality have remained entrenched in some societies in spite of repeated …

new trade policy. In assessing these findings, it should be borne in mind that the links between trade reform and poverty …

may contribute to rising poverty during periods of high inflation …

This paper demonstrates that high and rising corruption increases income inequality and poverty by reducing economic … and poverty …