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enterprises' disaster preparedness. The second step includes an experiment providing enterprises with information about six … specific and easy-to-implement measures of disaster preparedness. This experiment aims to understand if better information … associated with the disaster preparedness of enterprises. Second, providing information about disaster preparedness measures …
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Does information dissemination among beneficiaries of welfare programmes mitigate their implementation failures? We … was found for deprived communities. The findings lay a platform for an innovative information campaign that can be used by …
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attrition of communicating with participants. Specifically, we study the impact of sending topically relevant information on job … market conditions via SMS at the start of each survey round. Testing various information treatments, which differ in their …
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providing information on wages and unemployment reduces the time that university graduate job-seekers take to become employed …, with different levels of efficacy depending on the type of information provided. This relatively low-cost mechanism can …
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simultaneously increasing boys' labour input in household chores. This puts into question the existence of gender preferences in … schooling in Lesotho and suggests that impacts on child welfare are influenced by time and labour constraints and by gender …
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gender, age, marital status or even physique) to describe their ideal candidates, to which we will refer as explicit …
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to examine gender in the labour market, with specific reference to the South African Revenue Services (SARS) tax data …, with a focus on the gender dynamics of the labour market. Last, this paper identifies the areas in which the availability … of the SARS data has made new research possible, specifically in the gender dynamics of the South African labour market …
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This paper examines whether the presence of refugees alters the intra-household allocation of tasks across genders in the hosting population. Using panel data (pre- and post-refugee inflow) from Kagera, a rural region of Tanzania, we find that the refugee shock led to women being less likely to...
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Across the world, people in urban rather than rural areas are more likely to support gender equality. To explain this … women performing socially valued, masculine roles. Such exposure incrementally erodes gender ideologies, catalysing a … positive feedback loop, and increasing flexibility in gender divisions of labour. Women in densely populated areas also tend to …
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analysed from a gender perspective. The work is based on a case study about the main Tunisian microfinance institution using …
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