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Limited access to safe transportation is one of the greatest challenges to labor force participation faced by women in developing countries. This paper quantifies the causal impacts of improved urban transport systems in women´s employment outcomes, looking at Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and...
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makers when implementing policies to combat race and ethnic, and gender gaps in the labor market. …
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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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marginalized castes, the probability of joblessness is about 10%. Lockdown is expected to have raised the economic inequality by … gender and needs commensurate interventions. …
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, women experience longer unemployment and a slightly smaller hourly wage loss after job loss, suggesting that displaced women … trade off job flexibilities to longer job search without widening the gender pay gap. Also, we show that women who are …
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research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond …
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Traditional official definition of ‘work’ in developing countries excludes large number of activities that are predominantly performed by women. Naturally official Female Labour Force Participation Rate is quite low in such countries. Women who are officially in the labourforce must...
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migration . The issues and challenges to be faced are highlighted and this paper concludes that gender dimensions should …
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Advanced economies are in the midst of a major demographic transition, with the number of elderly rising precipitously relative to the working-age population. Yet, despite the acceleration in demographic shifts in the past decade, advanced economies experienced markedly different trajectories in...
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Women who want to work often face many more hurdles than men. This is true in Tajikistan where there is a large gender … labour force participation decision and its gender gap. Using probit and decomposition analysis, our investigation shows that … education and migration have a significant association with the gender gap in labour force participation in Tajikistan …
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