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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 decomposes the gender gap in pay in the Russian Federation along the earnings distribution for the period … the gender pay gap decrease along the earnings distribution; and if women?s pay took into account their educational … degrees as much as men?s, the gender pay gap would disappear or even reverse at the top of the earnings distribution. The …
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evolution was accompanied by a fall in the gender earnings gap; however, the difference in average wages of men and women is … still among the largest in comparison with countries in the Europe and Central Asia region. This study documents the gender … wage gap in Armenia through stylized facts and further investigates its sources. The paper finds that the gender wage gap …
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trains local health and psychosocial care providers on how to improve and expand services for survivors of gender …-based violence. This baseline report is part of a cluster-randomized controlled trial, which aims to assess the program's impact 24 … having experienced sexual violence of some type, such as being physically forced to have sex, non-physically pressured …
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the relationship between the presence of domestic violence legislation and women-to-men adult mortality rates. Using panel … data for about 95 economies between 1990 and 2012, the analysis finds that having domestic violence legislation leads to … lower women-to-men adult mortality rates. According to conservative estimations, domestic violence legislation would have …
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This study examines the association of unemployment variation with intimate partner violence using representative data … rate is associated with an increase in the incidence of physical violence against women by 0.50 percentage points, or 2 ….52 percentage points, or 2.87 percent. That an improvement in women's employment opportunities is associated with increased violence …
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violence. The phenomenon is observed in many countries, including in Brazil, despite its robust legal framework to prevent and … protect women from domestic violence. Through qualitative research, this paper explores the experience of women survivors of … violence against women (VAW) in seeking help to exit abusive relationships, with the aim of identifying avenues to strengthen …
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quantitative evaluations of their impacts on the incidence of domestic violence or any other manifestations of gender equality have …Although women?s police centers have been gaining popularity as a measure to address domestic violence, to date no … been done. This paper estimates the effects of women?s police stations in Brazil on female homicides, as a measure of the …
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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 model with labor market rigidities. Gender bias in the workplace varies … aimed at mitigating gender bias in the workplace can promote growth and be significantly magnified through a stronger …
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This paper presents a broad overview of labor market indicators for men and women in Serbia with a focus on employment patterns, entrepreneurship and career advancement as well as earnings differentials. The analysis relies primarily on the results of the Labor Force Surveys conducted in Serbia...
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