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This study seeks to examine gender gaps and disability issues in education in Indonesia, and to suggest policy actions as well as future analytical and operational work to address these differences. Field visits were conducted to uncover drivers of gender differences, as well as issues of social...
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participation. Policies that equalize wages induces more wives to join the labor market and husbands to withdraw from it. This …
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to household well-being, prices, employment, and wages. All studies can be classified as ex post quasi … nonsignificant, and 6 to 20 percent show a decrease in household well-being. The analyses on employment and wages show positive and … significant results for 22 to 25 percent of the results. Negative results on employment and wages relate to young and informal …
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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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Since the 1990s, India has seen robust economic growth, rising wages, steady fertility decline, increased urbanization … transitions, urban women's employment has refused to budge, never crossing the 25 percent mark. This paper fills a critical gap in … policy research on women's employment in India. The discussion is situated in the normative construction of motherhood and …
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of labor market outcomes in Peru. In particular, cognitive skills positively correlate with wages and the probability of … openness to experience and emotional stability-is only correlated with employment, and only when using the structural latent …
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of urban labor markets is important for a successful transition to a manufacturing and service-oriented economy and to …
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In parts of Asia, South Caucasus, and the Balkans, son preference is strong enough to trigger significant levels of sex selection, result in the excess mortality of girls, and skew child sex ratios in favor of boys. Every year, 1.8 million girls under the age of five go "missing" because of the...
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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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