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a possible widening of gender and inter-generational inequality and provide important inputs for the formulation of …
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This paper studies net employment growth across 21 OECD economies in 1980-97, focusing on experiences within the European Union. It finds that sectoral effects can only partially account for differences in job creation. By contrast, it shows that a policy package including low taxation and...
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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 …
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reflect and perpetuate gender norms that limit women's economic participation, and removal of these impediments through legal …, and the United States) that rank high in gender equality in their respective regions demonstrate how legal reforms have …
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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 …
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Achieving gender equality remains a significant challenge, that has only deepened with the on-set of the COVID-19 … pandemic. Gender budgeting (GB) can help promote gender equality by applying a gender perspective to fiscal policies and the … and data gathered from an IMF survey. All G20 countries have enacted gender focused fiscal policies but the public …
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Epidemics have disrupted lives for centuries with deleterious human capital and economic repercussions. In this paper, we investigate how epidemics episodes have impacted school dropouts in developing countries, considering 623 epidemics episodes across countries from 1970 to 2019. Our estimates...
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This paper considers various dimensions and sources of gender inequality and presents policies and best practices to … promotes gender equality. Despite recent progress, gender gaps remain across all stages of life, including before birth, and … negatively impact health, education, and economic outcomes for women. The roadmap to gender equality has to rely on legal …
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that rural children struggled to continue learning during school closures. Gender-sensitive policies are needed to narrow …
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This paper examines gender inequality in the context of structural transformation and rebalancing in China. We document … sector productivity can boost both gender equality and economic growth in China …
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