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Preventing more "missing girls" : a review of policies to tackle son preference
Kumar, Sneha; Sinha, Nistha - 2018
In parts of Asia, South Caucasus, and the Balkans, son preference is strong enough to trigger significant levels of sex selection, result in the excess mortality of girls, and skew child sex ratios in favor of boys. Every year, 1.8 million girls under the age of five go "missing" because of the...
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Gender inequality in the labor market in Serbia
Reva, Anna - 2012
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A structural model of the labor market to understand gender gaps among marginalized Roma communities
Salazar-Saenz, Mauricio; Robayo-Abril, Monica - 2020
This paper constructs and estimates a household-level search model to analyze Roma spouses' utility maximization for leisure, home production, and work. The paper aims to explain labor market gender gaps in a marginalized Roma population with low labor market participation rates (males 53...
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Gender gaps in the labor market and economic growth
Agénor, Pierre-Richard; Ozdemir, Kamer Karakurum; … - 2018
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Will market competition trump gender discrimination in India?
Ghani, Ejaz; Grover, Arti; Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016
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What explains big gender disparities in India? : local industrial structures and female entrepreneurship
Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - 2012
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Gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility : theory and evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2020
mobility. This paper tests these predictions in India and China using data not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence … rejects the linear conditional expectation function in rural and urban India in favor of a concave relation. Girls in India … rural India, the mechanisms are underestimation of the ability of girls and unfavorable school environment. There is some …
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Reflections of employers' gender preferences in job ads in India : an analysis of online job portal data
Chowdhury, Afra; Areias, Ana; Imaizumi, Saori; Nomura, … - 2018
Using online job portal data and probabilistic regression estimations, the paper investigates the explicit gender bias and salary gap in the Indian job market, reflected in more than 800,000 job recruitment advertisements. Exploring formal and informal sector occupations, the study finds high...
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Changing wage structure in India in the post-reform era : 1993 - 2011
Jacoby, Hanan; Dāśagupta, Bāsaba - 2015
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Short-term effects of India’s employment guarantee program on labor markets and agricultural productivity
Deininger, Klaus W.; Nagarajan, Hari K.; Singh, Sudhir K. - 2016
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