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Labor and women's nutrition : a study of energy expenditure, fertility, and nutritional status in Ghana
Higgins, Paul A.; Alderman, Harold - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000846511
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Childcare and maternal employment : evidence from Vietnam
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Hiraga, Masako; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2019
Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing country context, and recent studies offer mixed results. This paper attempts to fill these gaps by analyzing several of the latest rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051780
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Preschool availability and female labor force participation : evidence from Indonesia
Halim, Daniel; Johnson, Hillary C.; Perova, Elizaveta - 2019
-in-difference-in-differences framework. With a longitudinal survey that tracks individuals for an average of 22 years, a panel of mothers was constructed to … 1,000 children increases the work participation of mothers of preschool age eligible children by 11-16 percent from the … of holding a second job. The availability of preschools induces mothers to informal sector occupations that do not …
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Paid maternity leave and female employment : evidence using firm-level survey data for developing countries
Amin, Mohammed; Islam, Asif - 2019
The relationship between the length of paid maternity leave and the proportion of female workers in the private sector is explored using firm-level survey data for 66 mostly developing countries. The paper finds a large, positive, and statistically significant relationship between the two....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004770
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Regional integration in South Asia : implications for green growth, female labor force participation, and the gender wage gap
Mani, Muthukumara S.; Narayanan, Badri; Wadhwa, Deepika - 2020
The study aims to provide insights to policy makers in measuring the impact of trade liberalization and regional integration measures on gender employment and wages. The study incorporates gender-differentiated employment and wages for selected South Asian economies across sectors to identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228399
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Women in the pipeline : a dynamic decomposition of firm pay gaps
Das, Jishnu; Joubert, Clément - 2020
This paper proposes a new decomposition method to understand how gender pay gaps arise within firms. The method accounts for pipeline effects, nonstationary environments, and dynamic interactions between pay gap components. This paper assembles a new data set covering all employees at the World...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257049
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The impact of employer discrimination on female labor market outcomes : experimental evidence from Tunisia
Alaref, Jumana; Towfighian, Samira Nikaein; Paez, Gustavo N. - 2020
The role of employer discrimination in widening labor market differences between men and women has been hypothesized and investigated in different settings. Using a field experiment, this paper examines the presence and magnitude of gender-based discrimination by employers at the point of...
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Globalization and the gender earnings gap : evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia
Savchenko, Yevgeniya; López Acevedo, Gladys; … - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011623954
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Gender gaps in the labor market and economic growth
Agénor, Pierre-Richard; Ozdemir, Kamer Karakurum; … - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002558
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Discriminatory laws against women : a survey of the literature
Roy, Sanchari - 2019
This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women's outcomes across various domains (categories) that constitute the Women in Business and the Law measure of gender inequality. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004791