This paper studies the impact of an affirmative action policy on occupational segregation by gender in South Africa. We …

This paper studies the impact of an affirmative action policy on occupational segregation by gender in South Africa. We …

Given the demographic structure of the population of the European countries, this paper examines how gender gaps in … only on the existing gender gaps but also on the way how they are jointly distributed across the income distribution. Using … the 2010 EU-SILC data, we propose a novel methodology that allows assessing the way in which gender gaps in income per …

Occupational and sectoral segregation by gender is remarkably persistent across space and time and is a major … contributor to gender wage gaps. We investigate the determinants of one-digit occupational and sectoral segregation in developing …

gender bias in mortality in China and India …

Despite substantial progress, gender gaps persist in many developing countries. Since the 1990s, a literature has …, it is methodologically difficult to determine reliable effects of gender gaps on economic performance. Second, accounting … studies that calculate how much larger GDP would be if gender gaps in employment disappeared vastly overestimate likely …

In this paper we construct the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) and its five subindices Family code, Civil … liberties, Physical integrity, Son Preference and Ownership rights using variables of the OECD Gender, Institutions and … Development database. Instead of measuring gender inequalities in education, health, economic or political participation, these …

Donors of foreign aid increasingly claim to consider gender inequality in the recipient countries to be a serious … concern. While aid specifically to promote gender equality receives only a tiny share of aid budgets, allocations to education …, health, and civil society projects could be affected by gender inequality concerns. In this paper, we investigate whether …