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Exporting and female labor market outcomes in Georgia
Hollweg, Claire H.; Lopez, Anne Beline Ong - 2020
Using firm-level data for Georgia, the paper estimates the quasi-elasticity of employment and wages with respect to the … employment levels and average wages by gender and consider whether export destination or the competiveness of economies matters … improves female employment but reduces overall average wages and female wages. Increasing exports to the European Union as well …
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The Motherhood Penalty and Female Employment in Urban India
Das, Maitreyi Bordia - 2017
Since the 1990s, India has seen robust economic growth, rising wages, steady fertility decline, increased urbanization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246337
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Perceptions of Precariousness : A Qualitative Study of Constraints Underlying Gender Disparities in Mongolia's Labor Market
Schmillen, Achim - 2018
As compared to the majority of countries in the East Asia and Pacific Region, gender disparities in Mongolia are relatively muted. At the same time, a number of important gender disparities do exist. In particular, several studies have documented gender disparities in access to economic...
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Dynamics of off-farm employment in Sub-Saharan Africa : a gender perspective
Van den Broeck, Goedele; Kilic, Talip - 2018
Off-farm income constitutes a significant share of the household livelihood portfolios across Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, the determinants and dynamics of individuals' participation in off-farm employment activities have not received adequate attention due to the weaknesses in individual-level data...
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Sifting through the Data : Labor Markets in Haiti through a Turbulent Decade (2001-2012)
Scot, Thiago - 2016
In Latin America, labor markets have been the main channel through which growth has reduced poverty, with higher labor income accounting for 49 percent of the reduction in poverty in 2008-13. Understanding labor markets is critical to designing policies and programs aimed at reducing poverty....
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Who is employed? : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa on redefining employment
Gaddis, Isis; Oseni, Gbemisola; Palacios Lopez, Amparo; … - 2020
The 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (in 2013) redefined labor statistics standards. A major change was to narrow the definition of employment to work for pay or profit. By the revised standards, farming that is only or mainly intended for own use is no longer considered...
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The impact of employer discrimination on female labor market outcomes : experimental evidence from Tunisia
Alaref, Jumana; Towfighian, Samira Nikaein; Paez, Gustavo N. - 2020
The role of employer discrimination in widening labor market differences between men and women has been hypothesized and investigated in different settings. Using a field experiment, this paper examines the presence and magnitude of gender-based discrimination by employers at the point of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297473
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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...
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Does culture matter or firm? : demand for female labor in three Indian cities
Bordia Das, Maitreyi; Mehta, Soumya Kapoor; Žumbytė, Ieva - 2019
In discussing the inordinately low employment of Indian women in urban areas, several studies have argued that culture and attitudes have created a labor market that is inherently discriminatory. The unsaid corollary is that culture is slow and hard to change and so, women will stay out of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005037
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The Misallocation of Pay and Productivity in the Public Sector : Evidence from the Labor Market for Teachers
Bau, Natalie - 2017
correlates; and (c) the link between TVA and teacher wages. Teachers are highly effective in our setting: Moving a student from … between TVA and wages in the public sector (although there is in the private sector), and a policy change that shifted public … hiring from permanent to temporary contracts, reducing wages by 35 percent, had no adverse impact on TVA, either immediately …
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