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labour force participation over the last 55 years in Mexico. The growth of female labour force participation in Mexico …
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around the birth of the first child based on panel data from national household surveys for Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay … occupations- part-time work, self-employment, and labour informality-needed for family-work balance. Furthermore, countries with …
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This paper analyses the political economy of women's-empowerment-related policymaking in India through a re-examination of the context of both the genesis and closure of a major programme, Mahila Samakhya. Mahila Samakhya, which embodied feminist philosophy and pedagogy, started in 1987 with the...
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Cameroon is an example of a developing country where the transition from agriculture to services has defied standard patterns seen in developed countries. While prior research has explored this shift's impact on economic growth, its effects on women's representation in the labour market have...
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discrimination. In this paper we aim at analysing the effect of local labour market conditions on a firm's decision to discriminate …. We use a direct measure of discrimination using online job advertisements which use ascriptive characteristics (such as … discrimination. In theory, the effect of the unemployment rate on discrimination is ambiguous. Using data from over 300,000 online …
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wage employment probability differential suggests that the possibility of gender discrimination against women in urban …
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face greater discrimination. …
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evidence of discrimination against Muslim applicants, both in terms of probability of being contacted and the number of …
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Racial wage inequality and discrimination have pervaded South African society for centuries. Apartheid legislation … decomposition methodology that tracks changes in the discrimination component of the wage gap over time. It accounts for biases … shows that 2003 was a turning point, when black-white discrimination started to decline continuously thereafter. The …
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