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gender, age, marital status or even physique) to describe their ideal candidates, to which we will refer as explicit …
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probit model to analyse gender differences in labour force participation and gender bias in formal wage employment in urban … likely to get formal wage employment, suggesting the existence of gender bias in the labour market in urban areas of Tanzania …. However, after accounting for selection into labour force participation, the existing gender bias is narrowed for women with …
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We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender gap has …
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essentially among wage earners. Returns to experience mitigate the gender earnings gap at the mean, and 10th and 50th percentiles …
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We extend the conventional framework for measuring segregation to consider stratification of occupations by gender, i … indices. Our empirical analysis using this approach shows that the decline over time in occupational gender segregation in the … US has been accompanied by a deeper, longer reduction in gender stratification. We further investigate the role of …
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-industry labour mobility and the gender wage gap. Using a regression discontinuity design, we show that as a firm becomes compliant … its female inflow diversity and the smaller its gender wage gap. This relationship is significantly stronger among the …
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In this study, we explore the correlates of the employment gender gap among urban youth in Mozambique. Young people are … confronted with simultaneous decisions about education, work and family life influenced by social norms around gender roles … education, employment, fertility, social life, gender norms and more, we observe an increase of 10 percentage points in the raw …
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keen to observe subjective returns to education for different social identity groups, such as gender, religion, and caste …
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Using the 2004-05 India Human Development Survey data, we estimate and decompose the earnings of household businesses owned by historically marginalized social groups known as Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SCSTs), and non-SCSTs across the earnings distribution. We find clear differences in...
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Racial wage inequality and discrimination have pervaded South African society for centuries. Apartheid legislation cemented these disparities by institutionalizing white job reservation and many other unfair practices. While racial wage gaps started to decline towards the end of apartheid, they...
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