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Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of … narrowing down the gender gap in education for the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. More specifically, and among many … other factors, the study focuses on the response of gender gap in education to economic growth, information communication …
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This paper focuses on theoretical issues of gender related to household decision making and examines its empirical … likely to indicate gender discrimination in the intra occupational labour market in which both men and women of a household …
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The reverse regression method of measuring wage discrimination is the main challenge to the dominant direct regression method based on the Oaxaca/Blinder approach. In this article, it is argued that the choice between the two methods is fundamentally a choice of assumptions regarding the nature...
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use this game in a laboratory experiment to investigate gender specific allocation behaviour and discrimination. We … observe that dictators treat females nicer than males independent of their own gender. Participants are not aware of their …
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The study investigates the role of social-political institutions on gender discrimination and female employment in five …
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This paper documents two new facts linking firm-size and gender pay gaps to informal employment using micro-level data … equivalent workers, is greater for informal employment than formal employment. And, second, we find that the gender pay gap is … in understanding the underlying forces determining firm-size and gender wage gaps. We propose and discuss the relevance …
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Wage and employment differences between male and female agricultural labourers in the under developed countries including India is not new. With the help of a simple theoretical model it is here proved that public policy like implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS)...
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Gender is a common term where as gender discrimination is meant only for women, because females are the only victims of … gender discrimination. Females are nearly 50 percent of the total population but their representation in public life is very … paper deals with gender discrimination in India, its various forms and causes. Importance of women in devleopment …
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Urbanization -as a worldwide pheonemenon- has increased its pace especially in the twentieth century in all over the World. Turkey is no exception of this process. In Turkey, urbanization has been accelerated since 1950 and it still carries on by increasing its speed. While only 25% of the...
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We model sex selection and the equilibrium sex ratio, when parents care about their child's marriage prospects. With intrinsic son preference, selection results in a male-biased sex ratio. This is inefficient, due to a marriage market congestion externality. Medical innovations that facilitate...
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