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Western Balkans : increasing women's role in the economy
Atoyan, Ruben; Rahman, Jesmin - 2017
require stronger growth supported by robust institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011799665
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Crime and output : theory and application to the Northern Triangle of Central America
Plotnikov, Dmitry - 2020
This paper presents a structural model of crime and output. Individuals make an occupational choice between criminal and legal activities. The return to becoming a criminal is endogenously determined in a general equilibrium together with the level of crime and economic activity. I calibrate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012170078
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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 in India. Lack of …, constraining their growth. A small-open economy DSGE model is built to investigate the long-run macroeconomic impacts from closing … higher female entrepreneurship and employment, which boosts India's output by 1.6 percent. However, regulations and gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932241
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Trade and inclusive growth
Bacchetta, Marc; Cerra, Valerie; Piermartini, Roberta; … - 2021
This paper surveys the literature on the relationship between international trade and inclusive growth. It examines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518909
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Macroeconomic impacts of gender inequality and informality in India
Khera, Purva - 2016
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436767
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Informal Labour and Credit Markets : A Survey
Levine, Paul - 2010
This paper reviews the literature on the informal economy, focusing first on empirical findings and then on existing approaches to modeling informality within both partial and general equilibrium environments. We concentrate on labour and credit markets, since these tend to be most affected by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402686
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Gender equality and inclusive growth
Fernández, Raquel; Isakova, Asel; Luna, Francesco; … - 2021
address these. With women accounting for fifty percent of the global population, inclusive growth can only be achieved if it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518760
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Trends in gender equality and women's advancement
Stotsky, Janet G.; Shibuya, Sakina; Kolovich, Lisa; … - 2016
This paper examines trends in indicators of gender equality and women's development, using evidence derived from individual indicators and gender equality indices. We extend both the United Nations Development Program's Gender Development Index and Gender Inequality Index to examine time trends....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436743
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Tackling legal impediments to women's economic empowerment
Christopherson, Katharine; Yiadom, Audrey; Johnson, … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170246
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Effects of COVID-19 on regional and gender equality in Sub-Saharan Africa : evidence from Nigeria and Ethiopia
Aoyagi, Chie - 2021
The labor structure in sub-Saharan Africa is characterized by a high share of informal employment in the rural agricultural sector. The impact of COVID-19 on female employment may not appear to be large as the share of such employment is particularly high among women. Nevertheless, widespread...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012610761