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. Women face disadvantage in accessing management positions and entrepreneurship. A range of policies can help reduce gender … upskilling on return from parental leave, encouraging gender equality within firms, integration programmes for foreign-born women … dimensions and root causes of gender inequality call for mainstreaming gender across policy domains. …
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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 …
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The Gender Kuznets Curve (GKC) hypothesis argues that economic development has a non-linear effect on the female share … conclude that gender equality is not a direct result of development, and therefore policy makers having a gender equalization …
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) took in an inflow of immigrants to support growth. The more they depended on foreign labour, the issue of gender inequality … the relation between unemployment rate from the gender perspective and economic growth of BIMP-EAGA by using two methods …
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growth of human capital and several of its constituent factors are broken down by gender and by region, and in some cases … also by income, since apparently, human capital in the world is not evenly distributed across different regions or … capital have grown over time. The purpose is to identify the sources of human capital growth by region, gender, and various …
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We study whether higher gender equality facilitates economic growth by enabling better allocation of a valuable … resource: female labor. By allocating female labor to its more productive use, we hypothesize that reducing gender inequality … women grow relatively faster in countries with ex-ante lower gender inequality. The test allows us to identify the causal …
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A kind of gender revolution is passing through various countries in various continents. By being offered free access to … assess the role of gender equity and uniquely women entrepreneurship in the process of socio-economic development. Implying a … set of variables, treated as proxies of gender equality and women entrepreneurship, we estimate their coherence with socio …
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We show that gender inequality decreases the variety of goods countries produce and export, in particular in low …-income and developing countries. We argue that this happens through at least two channels: first, gender gaps in opportunity … of human capital available in an economy. Second, gender gaps in the labor market impede the development of new ideas by …
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This paper presents a theoretical model that can analyze the impact of gender inequality on long-term economic growth …. The model is calibrated to fit to Korean data. We find that gender equality policies that lower discrimination in the …
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This paper introduces a model of gender inequality and economic growth that focuses on the determination of women … economies, and numerous policy experiments are conducted to investigate how various aspects of gender inequality are related to … the growth performance of the economy. The analysis shows that improving gender equality can contribute significantly to …
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