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Previous economic downturns such as the 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis disproportionately affected male employment due to greater contractions in industries typically filled by men (e.g., manufacturing). However, after the imposition of the 'hard' COVID-19 lockdown between 2020 quarter 1 and 2...
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The impact of childbirth on the labour market participation of women has been discussed extensively in the context of developed countries, constraints on mothers labour market participation and earnings being characterized as the motherhood penalty . In the developing country context, and...
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The impact of childbirth on women's employment has been discussed extensively in the context of developed countries. Constraints on mothers' labour market participation and consequent fall in earnings are characterised as the 'motherhood penalty'. This phenomenon is relatively less explored in...
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to examine gender in the labour market, with specific reference to the South African Revenue Services (SARS) tax data …, with a focus on the gender dynamics of the labour market. Last, this paper identifies the areas in which the availability … of the SARS data has made new research possible, specifically in the gender dynamics of the South African labour market …
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We conduct a lab experiment to assess whether gender of dictators and recipients, and distributional preferences affect …. Second, male dictators appropriate a greater share of the pie than females and more is taken from known gender (male …
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Although recent developments greatly increased interest in African land tenure, few models to address these issues at the required scale have been identified or evaluated. Rwanda's nation-wide land tenure regularization programme is of great interest. A discontinuity design with spatial fixed...
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. We compare scenarios with different gender employment intensities in producing jatropha for biodiesel. Under all …
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time. This paper seeks to examine the relationship not only between gender and urban income poverty but also, more … importantly, between gender and urban asset accumulation, illustrating how the combination of quantitative econometric measurement … of assets and qualitative in-depth anthropological findings on the complex underlying gender relations both contribute to …
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, training and funding. The focus is on Tunisia, a developing country characterized by high level of unemployment, particularly …
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This paper examines whether the presence of refugees alters the intra-household allocation of tasks across genders in the hosting population. Using panel data (pre- and post-refugee inflow) from Kagera, a rural region of Tanzania, we find that the refugee shock led to women being less likely to...
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