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Closing the gap : gender and innovation
Barasa, Laura - 2020
Innovation generally takes place in male-dominated industries. A gender gap might therefore exist. This study used data from the 2015 Tanzania Firm-Level Skills Survey to investigate the gender innovation gap between female-owned enterprises and male-owned enterprises. A non-linear...
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Gender divide in agricultural productivity in Mozambique
Morgado, João; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2016
In this study we analyze the gender gap in agricultural productivity in Mozambique applying the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition approach on data from four agricultural surveys between 2002 and 2012. We find that female-headed households are on average substantially less productive (about 20 per...
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Gender identity and female labour supply in Brazil
Codazzi, Karen; Pero, Valéria; Sant'Anna, André - 2017
Over the last half-century, the role of women in society has changed substantially. However, the gender income gap and the difference in labour force participation persist. Akerlof and Kranton introduce the concept of identity from sociology and social psychology at the economic analysis; based...
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Segregation of women into low-paying occupations in the United States
Gradín, Carlos - 2017
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 … workers' characteristics, showing that gender differences cannot explain the levels of segregation/stratification in any year …
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Cooperation and leadership in a segregated community : evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in a South African township
Grieco, Daniela; Braga, Michela; Bripi, Francesco - 2016
The paper presents the results of a lab-in-the-field experiment in three South African townships located in the suburbs of Cape Town. The experimental design consists of a set of decisions on how the members of a naturally occurring group allocate an endowment to a private or to a public...
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Institutionalizing segregation : conditional cash transfers and employment choices
Palacio, María Gabriela - 2016
largely misplaced. By examining broader patterns of institutionalization of occupational gender segregation, the role of cash …
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Female managers and firm performance : evidence from the Caribbean countries
Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Lo Bue, Maria C. - 2021
This paper investigates whether firm performance differs significantly when comparing firms with female and male top managers in the Caribbean region. We use survey data with detailed information on gender for firms in 13 Caribbean countries. Our methodology is based on Blinder- Oaxaca...
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Gender and vulnerable employment in the developing world : evidence from global microdata
Lo Bue, Maria C.; Tu Thi Ngoc Le; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2021
This paper investigates gender inequality in vulnerable employment: forms of employment typically featuring high precariousness, inadequate earnings, and lack of decent working conditions. Using a large collection of harmonized household surveys from developing countries, we measure long-term...
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Does connectivity reduce gender gaps in offfarm employment? : evidence from 12 low- and middle-income countries
Egger, Eva-Maria; Arslan, Aslıhan; Zucchini, Emanuele - 2021
Gender gaps in labour force participation in developing countries persist despite income growth or structural change. We assess this persistence across economic geographies within countries, focusing on youth employment in off-farm wage jobs. We combine household survey data from 12 low- and...
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Puzzle me this? : the Vietnamese reverse gender education gap
Mergoupis, Thanos; Phan, Van; Sessions, John G. - 2018
We investigate within the context of Viet Nam how circumstances at age 15 or 16 relate to completion of upper secondary education four years later. We exploit the longitudinal elements of the Viet Nam Access to Resources Household Survey to identify household and commune characteristics and...
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