Despite the efforts made to increase women's inclusion in the economy, they are still underrepresented in trade in … women's trade participation as entrepreneurs and employees. It also analyzes how this effect is moderated through external …. Thus, global value chains can be perceived as a tool that boosts women's empowerment in emerging economies, especially in …

This study uses a newly compiled database of women's property rights and legal capacity covering 100 countries over 50 … years to test for the impact of legal reforms on employment, health, and education outcomes for women and girls. The … women's economic rights, including 28 countries that had eliminated all of the constraints monitored here. In the cross …

ability of a spouse to deny permission for the other to work outside the home, and raising women's minimum age of marriage …. Thus both access to resources and the removal of restrictions on employment served to strengthen women's bargaining … of the reform's impact. The analysis finds that women were relatively more likely to work in occupations that require …

This paper seeks to fill a knowledge gap relative to the low uptake of services for women living in situations of … protect women from domestic violence. Through qualitative research, this paper explores the experience of women survivors of … violence against women (VAW) in seeking help to exit abusive relationships, with the aim of identifying avenues to strengthen …

persistence, and women's occupational constraints-- with particular emphasis on the role of access to infrastructure. The first … promoting the role of women in growth strategies. …

With only 32 percent of working-age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper-middle-income country with one of … educational attainment of women, the reduction in fertility, and the country's structural transformation toward services. However …, a large component remains unexplained. Exploring 2018 data, the paper shows that social norms, attitudes toward women in …

Modern fruit sector development in Chile led to agricultural employment for women, though usually only as temporary … workers and often at a piece rate. Nonetheless, fruit sector employment offered women access to income and personal … and changing gender relations. Using a unique longitudinal data set, they examine women's decisions regarding labor force …

transition economies with the goal of improving women's employability and quality of work. The programs include active labor … some also to rigorous cost-benefit analyses. Many were found to be effective in increasing women's quantity of work as … increased women's quality of work, for example, by increasing the capacity for women to work in the formal rather than the …

Reducing gender-specific commuting barriers in developingcountries has complex effects on women's labor dynamics … synthetic difference-in-differences approach to shedlight on labor supply and time use decisions of women. Itobserves decreased … bus expenses and time saved on travel.Skilled employed women increase labor supply, while low-skilledmarried women shift …