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globalization on female employment in 33 OECD countries, using a pseudo micro panel on 110’000 persons from the World Values Survey … information exchange, increases employment probabilities of women. However, when accounting for sub-national regional differences …) increases female employment in a cross-country fashion. …
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Globalization, liberalization, technological development, infrastructure development and WTO etc. are ‘contexts’, which have the potential to positively influence the quantity and quality of women’s participation in agriculture in India’s North Eastern Region. Women in agriculture in...
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We study gender discrimination in hiring markets by sending 19,130 fictitious matched resumes in response to … professional employment advertisements posted on major Internet employment boards in China for positions such as engineers … applicants. On one hand, this evidence supports the hypothesis that economic reform and the market economy may mitigate gender …
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This paper present an overview of the state of lifelong learning in Bulgaria from a gender perspective; reviews the … accordance with the European strategic objectives, including gender aspects. The analysis on the state and policies of the …
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mitigating discrimination in employment. However, accounting for sub-national regional gender heterogeneity reveals that the … globalization on female employment in 30 OECD countries, using a micro pseudo panel of 110’000 persons derived from five waves of … the probability of employment for women – contradicting the Becker (1957)-hypothesis of international competition …
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thus commentaries are welcome. The structure is based on the following topics: a) The employment policy (Time regimes … gender and age regulation); d) Restructuring effects (policy on transfer of personnel, policy on redundancies, and …
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to the crisis impact on employment, focusing on R&D sector as revealing the endogenous growth generating potential at …
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This paper provides new evidence on the consequences of foetal exposure to high levels of pollution for the risk of stillbirth, and for the long-term health and labour market outcomes of those that survive. Variation in in utero exposure comes from a persistent weather system that affected...
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After more than two decades of inflation targeting in the world, it is important to evaluate if the adoption of this regime in a relevant developing country contributed to the creation of a better environment for the process of entrepreneurs' expectations formation. Brazil is part of an...
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This paper examines the effect of entry of large foreign retailers on local employment at the city level. Using a panel … data for the period 2000-2006, we find that entry of large retailers largely increases employment in wholesale and retail … sector and other related sector in the year of entry. The positive effect on employment in wholesale and retail sector …
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