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Can Job Training Decrease Women's Self-Defeating Biases? Experimental Evidence from Nigeria

Croke, Kevin - 2017

Occupational segregation is a central contributor to the gap between male and female earnings worldwide. As new sectors of employment emerge, a key question is whether this pattern is replicated. This paper examines this question by focusing on the emerging information and communications...

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In the Mind, the Household, or the Market? Concepts and Measurement of Women's Economic Empowerment

Fox, Louise - 2017

The concept of empowerment is now widely used in several disciplines to characterize the states and social processes of individuals and communities. In economic development, the concept has come to mean women's power and agency in all economic domains and market-related interactions -- earning,...

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Gender Gaps in the Labor Market and Economic Growth

Agenor, Pierre-Richard - 2018

This paper studies the effects of policies aimed at mitigating discrimination against women in the marketplace on the gender wage gap, decisions to invest in skills, the composition of employment and unemployment, and long-run growth. The analysis uses a gender-based overlapping generations...

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All in My Head? The Play of Exclusion and Discrimination in the Labor Market

Das, Maitreyi Bordia - 2017

Labor market discrimination is very difficult to pinpoint, even more difficult to measure and almost impossible to ?prove?. It has been studied in many disciplines of which economics and sociology are prime. The latter has focused more on the manner in which discrimination plays out and how it...

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Women Managers and the Gender-Based Gap in Access to Education : Evidence from Firm-Level Data in Developing Countries

Amin, Mohammad - 2017

Several studies explore the differences in men?s and women?s labor market participation rates and wages. Some of these differences have been linked to gender disparities in education attainment and access. The present paper contributes to this literature by analyzing the relationship between the...

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Labor Market Discrimination and Sorting : Evidence from South Africa

Abel, Martin - 2017

This paper collects a unique data set of classified ads and exploits quasi-random variation in the applicant pool composition to test for hiring discrimination against immigrants in South Africa's informal sector. Consistent with a tournament models in which immigrants are penalized, the...

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India's Internal Labor Migration Paradox : The Statistical and the Real

Nayyar, Gaurav - 2018

Internal labor migration rates in India have been largely static and low in recent times compared with those in other … the India Human Development Survey, which provides a more recent source of data compared with the Census and other …-12, empirical analysis based on the India Human Development Survey highlights several socioeconomic factors associated with the …

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