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We evaluate the direct employment effect of the public investment in key infrastructure-electricity, roads, schools and hospitals, and water and sanitation. Using rich firm-level panel data from 41 countries over 19 years, we estimate that USD 1 million of public spending in infrastructure...
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We analyze the differential impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the Spanish labor market across population groups, as well as its implications for income inequality. The main finding is that young, less educated, and low skilled workers, as well as women are the most affected by the COVID-19 shock...
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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...
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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. Quantitatively, our estimates show that an...
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set of individual characteristics (e.g., education, age, literacy and numeracy skills). Our results indicate that female …Using individual level data on task composition at work for 30 advanced and emerging economies, we find that women, on … relate data on task composition at work to occupation level estimates of probability of automation, controlling for a rich …
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Unpaid work, such as caring for children, the elderly, and household chores represents a significant share of economic … activity but is not counted as part of GDP. Women disproportionately shoulder the burden of unpaid work: on average, women do … two more hours of unpaid work per day than men, with large differences across countries. While much unpaid care work is …
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women's participation in the economy. This paper goes beyond previous Fund work by categorizing the key sources of laws that …
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taxes, we discuss the well-established findings on female labor supply and present new empirical work on the impact of …
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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, conditional on demographic characteristics and education, as well as …
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