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A feminization of vulnerability? : female headship, poverty, and vulnerability in Thailand and Vietnam
Klasen, Stephan; Lechtenfeld, Tobias; Povel, Felix - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 71 (2015), pp. 36-53
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432055
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Gender, institutions, and economic development : findings and open research and policy issues
Klasen, Stephan - 2016
Gender relations are a key institution governing important aspects of production and reproduction of societies. They … heterogeneity in gender inequality in formal and informal social institutions. The literature on long‐term drivers of gender gaps … suggests that those gender gaps are related to long‐standing and regularly reproduced gender norms and values related to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518240
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Drivers of gendered sectoral and occupational segregation in developing countries
Borrowman, Mary; Klasen, Stephan - In: Feminist economics 26 (2020) 2, pp. 62-94
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263227
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Drivers of gendered sectoral and occupational segregation in developing countries
Borrowman, Mary; Klasen, Stephan - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011623658
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The impact of affirmative action on the gendered : occupational segregation in South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Minasyan, Anna - 2017
This paper studies the impact of an affirmative action policy on occupational segregation by gender in South Africa. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011703638
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The impact of affirmative action on the gendered : occupational segregation in South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Minasyan, Anna - 2018 - Updated version: March 2018
This paper studies the impact of an affirmative action policy on occupational segregation by gender in South Africa. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011808868
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Gender segregation in education and its implications for labour market outcomes : evidence from India
Sahoo, Soham; Klasen, Stephan - 2018
This paper investigates gender-based segregation across different fields of study at the post-secondary level of … longitudinal data-set from India, we provide evidence that there is substantial intra-household gender disparity in the choice of … humanities. This gender disparity is not driven by gender specific differences in mathematical ability, as the gap remains large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881379
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What about the Women? Female Headship, Poverty and Vulnerability in Thailand and Vietnam
Klasen, Stephan; Lechtenfeld, Tobias; Povel, Felix - 2011
This paper investigates whether heterogeneous subgroups of female-headed households are worse off than traditional households headed by men. We analyze the determinants of consumption, shock exposure and vulnerability to poverty. Using unique panel data of over 4000 rural households from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330001
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Drivers of gendered sectoral and occupational segregation in developing countries
Borrowman, Mary; Klasen, Stephan - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636817
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What Drives Female Labor Force Participation? Comparable Micro-Level Evidence from Eight Developing and Emerging Economies
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2019
We investigate the micro-level determinants of labor force participation of urban married women in eight low- and middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to understand what drives changes and differences in participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984627