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data to examine the effects of losing a parent on individual labor market outcomes and its contribution to gender earnings … aggregate gender earnings gap. Our analysis demonstrates that both the mental health and family support channels are at play …
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We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender gap has … female human capital, with less attained education, as well as literacy and Portuguese proficiency rates. The lower …
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year after the first child is born, mothers' annual earnings drop by 11% while men's remain unchanged. The gender gap is …
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We exploit the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to identify exogenous shifts in mothers' labor force participation and its impact on their children's educational outcomes. Using child level panel data, we find that a mother's participation in the labor force...
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year after the first child is born, mothers’ annual earnings drop by 11% while men’s remain unchanged. The gender gap is …
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region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment … paper with an emphasis on differences by gender and differences across regions. Some comparisons between China and India and … gender in any analysis. …
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This paper uses over 20 years of data from Indonesia's labor force survey to study trends in female labor force participation (FLFP). We find that younger women in urban areas have increased their labor force participation in recent years, largely through wage employment, while younger women in...
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outcomes in the labour market than non-Roma women, in most CSEE countries the gender wage gap is significantly larger amongst … Roma compared to non-Roma. This paper seeks to analyze and explain differences in the gender gap in the wages amongst Roma …. The paper employs a non-parametric matching approach to identify the main factors underlying the gender wage gap …
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Does culture affect female labor supply? In this paper, we address this question using a recent approach to measuring the effects of culture on economic outcomes, i.e. the epidemiological approach. We focus on migrants, who come from different cultures, but who share a common economic and...
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Analyzing gender gaps of unemployed job-seekers, this study uniquely complements the broad literature focussing … predominantly on gender gaps of employed workers. I consider a broad range of labor market outcomes, and disentangle the factors … importance. Married women and those with young children perform particularly bad compared to men. High unexplainable gender gaps …
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