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integration measures on gender employment and wages. The study incorporates gender-differentiated employment and wages for … green trade sectors. This is the first major attempt to develop a gender-differentiated data set for South Asian countries …, within the widely used Global Trade Analysis Project framework, to examine the nexus between trade, green economy, and gender …
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in Mexico City. The study is based on focus group discussions and individual in-depth interviews with mothers and fathers … parents in Mexico City, decisions in favor of or against the use of childcare are based on: (1) the interplay between women …
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This paper analyzes whether taxation can be successfully used to reduce the incidence of labor informality and achieve higher equality in a globalized economy. To this purpose, it develops a two-area model: a developed country and an emerging country. The two areas differ according to the size...
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This study aims to understand women's engagement in economic activities in rural Honduras and why these activities may not be accurately reflected in official statistics. The study finds that women underreport their engagement in economic activities, including production for own consumption,...
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This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women … Women, Business and the Law database, the paper documents large and persistent gender inequalities, especially with regard …
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Important progress toward gender equality has been made in the past decades, but inequalities linked to gender norms … of previous studies by analyzing gender differences in the allocation of time among market work and unpaid domestic work …
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individuals' work activities. The problem is further complicated by the presence of widespread gender stratification of work and …
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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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Evidence on the effect of exports on welfare at the local level is scarce. Using a unique data set of international trade and poverty maps for almost 2,000 Mexican municipalities between 2004 and 2014, the study presented in this paper provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise in...
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section three. In sections four and five discuss the empirical applications to export variety growth in Mexico and China …
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