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Promoting gender equality to strengthen economic growth and resilience
André, Christophe - 2023
Women’s employment rates and wages are still lagging those of men across OECD countries, with average employment and wage gaps now around 15% and 12% respectively. Gaps narrowed at a relatively modest pace over the past decade, calling for further policy action. A lack of affordable...
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Acculturation and the labor market in Mexico
Cano-Urbina, Javier; Mason, Patrick L. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 21, pp. 1-29
This paper empirically examines the relationship between the self-identity as Indigenous and earnings inequality in the Mexican labor market. Using Mexican Census data and a large set of wage covariates reveals the existence of an earnings penalty for self-identification as Indigenous. There is...
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Expanding social protection in developing countries : a gender perspective
Antonopoulos, Rania - 2013
This paper discusses social protection initiatives in the context of developing countries and explores the opportunities they present for promoting a gender-equality agenda and women's empowerment. The paper begins with a brief introduction on the emergence of social protection (SP) and how it...
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Expanding Social Protection in Developing Countries : A Gender Perspective
Antonopoulos, Rania - 2013
This paper discusses social protection initiatives in the context of developing countries and explores the opportunities they present for promoting a gender-equality agenda and women's empowerment. The paper begins with a brief introduction on the emergence of social protection (SP) and how it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085402
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Women at the top in developing countries : evidence from firm-level data
Sekkat, Khalid; Szafarz, Ariane; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015
This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a female dominant shareholder has a significantly higher...
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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 are guided by formal institutions as well as informal norms and values. As this survey shows, there is great regional heterogeneity in gender inequality in formal and informal...
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Gender Equality and Inclusive Growth
Fernández, Raquel; Luna, Francesco; Rambousek, Barbara - 2021
This paper considers various dimensions and sources of gender inequality and presents policies and best practices to address these. With women accounting for fifty percent of the global population, inclusive growth can only be achieved if it promotes gender equality. Despite recent progress,...
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Security of Property Rights for Whom?
Lawson-Remer, Terra - 2010
find that Property Insecurity of ethnopolitical minorities does not reduce growth in either the short or long term; that … when the property rights of elites are secure but marginalized minorities face high a risk of expropriation, because land … forced displacement and resettlement is mitigated because the property insecurity of minorities is also correlated with …
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Assessment of National Migration Policies : An Emerging Picture on Admissions, Treatment and Enforcement in Developing and Developed Countries
Klugman, Jeni; Medalho Pereira, Isabel - 2013
This paper presents an internationally comparable assessment of several dimensions of migration policies as of early 2009. For a selected set of 28 countries, both developed and developing, we analyse the admission criteria, policies on integration and treatment of migrants, and efforts to...
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Security of Property Rights for Whom?
Lawson-Remer, Terra - 2012
property insecurity of ethno-cultural minorities, this article finds that, in many countries, members of marginalized groups … minorities …
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