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The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand … facilities. We provide projections of possible impacts of this reduction on less-educated women's future human capital framed … experience. We develop a new and modified form of the Mincerian log wage equation which we argue captures the effect of women …
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We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...
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Ethnic conflicts and their links to international human trafficking have recently received a surge in international attention. It appears that ethnic conflicts exacerbate the internal displacement of individuals from networks of family and community, and their access to economic and social...
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We explore three hitherto poorly understood characteristics of the human trafficking market – the cross-border ease of mobility of traffickers, the relative bargaining strength of traffickers and final buyers, and the elasticity of buyers' demand. In a model of two-way bargaining, the exact...
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Worldwide human trafficking (HT) is the third most often registered international criminal activity, ranked only after drug and weapon trafficking. The aim of the paper is to measure the extent of HT inflows to destination countries. It proposes the application of the Multiple Indicators...
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distancing measures and practices due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Using data from the Cedefop European skills and jobs survey, a … Covid-19 social distancing risk falls disproportionately on vulnerable workforce groups, such as women, older employees, non … pandemic …
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The COVID19 pandemic has caused shocks to the demand for home childcare (with the closure of schools and nurseries) and … families with young children have been doing the equivalent of a working week in childcare. Women have been doing the greater … share, but overall, the gender childcare gap (the difference between the share of childcare done by women and the share done …
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men and women in April, to recover in August, but not to the pre-pandemic levels. The paper also examines available income … (employment), unpaid work (time spent on domestic work) and incomes, this paper examines the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on …, April 2020, saw a large contraction in employment for both men and women, where more men lost jobs in absolute terms …
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The COVID-19 pandemic and related closures of daycare centers and schools significantly increased the amount of care … work done by parents. There is much speculation over whether the pandemic increased or decreased gender equality in … perceived very differently by mothers and fathers, a difference that also increased during the pandemic …
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The public health measures implemented by governments to limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic will produce … spread of the pandemic that might easily spill over to other countries. A supranational, coordinated health and fiscal policy …
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