Similar Search Results

Discriminatory laws against women : a survey of the literature

Roy, Sanchari - 2019

This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women's outcomes across various domains (categories) that constitute the Women in Business and the Law measure of gender inequality. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004791

Intimate partner violence : the influence of job opportunities for men and women

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Kambhampati, Uma S.; Rawlings, Samantha - 2020

.52 percentage points, or 2.87 percent. That an improvement in women's employment opportunities is associated with increased violence …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228396

Assortative matching in Africa : evidence from rural Mozambique, Côte d’Ivoire, and Malawi

Boxho, Claire; Donald, Aletheia; Goldstein, Markus P.; … - 2019

This paper documents novel evidence of positive assortative matching in African marriage markets along cognitive and socio-emotional skills, time and risk preferences, and education, using data from rural Mozambique, Cote d'Ivoire, and Malawi

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113697

Saving for dowry : evidence from rural India

Anukriti, S; Kwon, Sungoh; Prakash, Nishith - 2020

The ancient custom of dowry, that is, bride-to-groom marriage payments, remains ubiquitous in many contemporary societies. This paper examines whether dowry impacted household decision making and resource allocation in rural India during 1986-2007. Utilizing variation in firstborn gender and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390589

Gendered laws

Hyland, Marie; Djankov, Simeon; Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - 2019

This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women's economic opportunity and charts the evolution of legal inequalities over five decades. Using the World Bank's newly extended Women, Business and the Law database, the paper documents...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168022

Do immigrants push natives towards safer jobs? : exposure to COVID-19 in the European Union

Bossavie, Laurent; Garrote Sanchez, Daniel; Makovec, Mattia - 2020

relative to men. The paper does not find any significant effect of immigration on wages and employment, which indicates that …This paper assesses the impact of immigration to Western Europe on the exposure of native-born workers to economic and …, are more exposed to the negative income shocks relative to the natives. The paper then examines whether immigration has an …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012434618

Childcare and maternal employment : evidence from Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Hiraga, Masako; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2019

Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing country context, and recent studies offer mixed results. This paper attempts to fill these gaps by analyzing several of the latest rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051780

The impact of minimum wage hikes on employment and wages in Cambodia

Shrestha, Maheshwor - 2019

Using an event-study framework, this paper examines the impact of four minimum wage hikes between 2008 and 2015 on the Cambodian labor market. The analysis finds that, except for immediate adjustments around the time of the hikes, the minimum wage hikes did not affect participation rates in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022356

Improving the measurement of rural women's employment : global momentum and survey research priorities

Koolwa, Gayatri - 2019

' employment, accounting for the complexity of measuring rural women's labor force participation, as well as data on social … issues to consider when examining rural women's employment in socioeconomic surveys, as well as a survey research agenda to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022358

The short-term impact of inter-community volunteering activities and soft skills training on self-reported social cohesion values : quasi-experimental evidence from Lebanon

Alaref, Jumana; Solano, Rene Leon; Asenjo, Carlos; … - 2019

other secondary measures, namely, employability and employment outcomes. The results should be interpreted with caution …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002686