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including gender considerations in budget programs and policies. Other arguments have a weaker economic basis but may be more … socially or politically compelling. The experience to date with "gender budgeting," which entails looking at gender issues … comprehensively within the budget, has been mixed. To become more useful, gender budgeting should be integrated into budget processes …
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, and differential responses to luck account for about half of the gender performance gap in our experiment.  These findings …
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This survey examines the implications of gender differences in economic behavior for macroeconomic policy. It finds … that reducing gender inequality and improving the status of women may contribute to higher rates of economic growth and …. Macroeconomic policies should take into account the benefits of reducing gender inequalities, especially in the lowest …
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, and differential responses to luck account for about half of the gender performance gap in our experiment. These findings …
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Several countries have employed countercyclical fiscal policy to ameliorate the impact of the global financial crisis. This study identifies some of the issues and policy implications associated with this policy response in developing countries. Included are case studies of four developing...
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This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EUcountries, using micro data from the … differentialsbetween the two genders. There is thus a largely unexplained residual in the gender joballocation, which may be consistent …
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The aim of this paper is to examine the issues of gender disparities in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS … gender disparities in comparison to EU-12 and EU-15, using data for the period 1985-2005.The study confirms the existence of … slightly different paths in which gender disparities have evolved over time. While in EU-15 women participation in labour …
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and reach of present spending. With respect to taxation, the main issues in the literature on gender bias in taxation are …
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This paper models unemployment durations for men and women in Finland using a nationally representative data set from 1997. We begin with a baseline model where durations are modelled using a single risk discrete time hazard model. These estimations are extended to a piecewise constant hazard...
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development in affecting gender differences in the trends in, levels of, and returns to schooling observed in China and in many …
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