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Despite a sizeable literature on the labour market effects of maternity leave regulations on women in developed countries, how these policies affect women's work in developing countries with a large informal sector remains poorly understood. This study examines how extending the maternity leave...
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This study seeks to determine the effect on the gender employment gap and women's employment of the extension of … extensions of maternity leave and the gender employment gap in Viet Nam. The findings show that, on average, the new law did not … exacerbate the gender employment gap, and there was a narrowing of the gap in the formal jobs sector compared to the waged jobs …
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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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influenced by gender, it is appropriate to account for this double selection process. This study uses the latest household survey … in Ghana to estimate gender wage gaps by correcting for this double selection process. We find that the average total … gender wage gap is positive and significant irrespective of the sample selection correction method used. Our results indicate …
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Based on tax records data from Ecuador, we analyse gender differences in top income groups from 2008 to 2017. Ecuador … incomes across gender, with around 80 per cent of individuals in the top 10 per cent group remaining in this group from year …
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economic growth. Substantial gender wage gaps contribute significantly to overall wage inequality. We look at an often …-overlooked driver of gender inequality: international trade. Trading firms constitute 70 per cent of employment in South African … universe of formal South African manufacturing firms, we show that these firms exhibit greater gender wage gaps than non …
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We study the association between the gender of the highest-ranking manager (the CEO) and gender differences in …
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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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