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This paper examines the role of industrial and occupational segregation in explaining the gender wage gap and its … evolution in Georgia between 2004 and 2015. It first documents the declining trends observed in the gender wage gap in Georgia … gender wage gap and its decline by decomposing the gender wage gap into the within-category and between-category components …
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This paper examines the effectiveness of a variety of policy interventions that have been tried in developing and transition economies with the goal of improving women's employability and quality of work. The programs include active labor market programs, education and training programs,...
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This paper examines the earnings premiums associated with different types of employment in 73 countries. Workers are divided into four categories: non-professional own-account workers, employers and own-account professionals, informal wage employees, and formal wage employees. Approximately half...
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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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assistance agencies. One of the reasons for this hurdle may well be that gender advocates and growth devotees are speaking … paper outlines a framework for gender-enhanced growth diagnostics that can be used to identify win-win solutions based on … or that from a pro-gender reform aimed at closing gender gaps. Using Turkey's country growth diagnostics and data on …
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several gender-based or gender-related experiments -- a reduction in the cost of child rearing, improved wage equality in the …
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-farm employment and continued employment; and conducts the analysis by gender and rural/urban location. A significant share of the …-farm enterprises being more common in Nigeria and Tanzania. The population weighted cross-country gender difference in off …-farm employment and continued employment are country- and gender-specific, with demographic factors, occurrence of shocks, and job …
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This paper analyzes theoretically and empirically the impact of comparative advantage in international trade on fertility. It builds a model in which industries differ in the extent to which they use female relative to male labor and countries are characterized by Ricardian comparative advantage...
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measure of unequal laws also known as legal gender disparities, and relates it to several labor market outcomes for women … evidence indicates that access to finance and corruption are pathways by which legal gender disparities disempower women in the …
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Using a cross-section of more than 29,000 manufacturing firms in 64 developing and emerging countries from the World …
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