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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281943
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281944
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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 … employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445354
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012671631
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012613393
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418074
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001474
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012021777
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Reducing and redistributing unpaid work : stronger policies to support gender equality
Alonso, Cristian; Brussevich, Mariya; Dabla-Norris, Era; … - 2019
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122693
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A quantitative analysis of female employment in Senegal
Malta, Vivian; Martínez Leyva, Angelica; Mendes … - 2019
Female-to-male employment in Senegal increased by 14 percentage points between 2006 and 2011. During the same period … employment in Senegal. To that end, we build an overlapping generations model that captures barriers that women face over their … increased in female-to-male employment ratio and (ii) the rest can be explained by a decline in the discrimination against women …
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