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strengthen the role of institutions that may discourage female participation, such as marriage, legislation, and gender norms …
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paper develops a theoretical model that decomposes the contribution of various market imperfections to the gender …
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gender differential in agricultural productivity is estimated at the mean in favor of male land managers, of which 10 … distribution reveals that gender differentials are more pronounced at mid-levels of productivity and that the share of the gender …
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This paper reviews empirical findings from economic analyses of the role of gender equality and women's empowerment in … household level. The paper also summarizes evidence from studies examining the relationship between gender equality and poverty … reduction and growth at the macro level. Although micro level effects of gender equality on individual productivity and human …
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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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Over the past two decades developing countries have seen a rapid increase in the number of women taking an active role in the labor market. While acknowledging that this is an important development outcome, this paper cautions against the possible undesired distributional effects that it can...
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research questions for the future. The objective is to develop a gender-informed policy and research agenda on youth employment …
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employment and the reduction in the gender gap in education in recent years …
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This report reviews the literature on the links between energy access, welfare, and gender in order to provide evidence … on where gender considerations in the energy sector matter and how they might be addressed. Prepared as a background … document for the 2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development, and part of the Social Development …
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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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