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The impacts of health crises on women & girls : how historical evidence can inform assessment and recovery through a gender lens
O'Donnell, Megan; Buvinić, Mayra; Krubiner, Carleigh; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012670781
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The role of women in society : from preindustrial to modern times
Giuliano, Paola - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 61 (2015) 1, pp. 33-52
The participation of women in agriculture and the role of women in society in the preindustrial period were remarkably different across ethnicities and strongly related to the type of agricultural technology adopted historically. The sexual division of labor was broadly associated to two...
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Employment programmes for the poor and female empowerment : the effect of NREGS on gender-based violence in India
Amaral, Sofia; Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha; Sensarma, Rudra - In: Journal of interdisciplinary economics 27 (2015) 2, pp. 199-218
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COVID-19 disparities by gender and income : evidence from the Philippines
Lavado, Rouselle F.; Nowacka, Keiko; Raitzer, David A.; … - In: International labour review 161 (2022) 1, pp. 107-123
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Outside the box? : women's individual poverty risk in the EU and the role of labour market characteristics and tax-benefit policies
Gasior, Katrin; Avram, Silvia; Popova, Daria - 2024
Social policy debates as early as the 1950s have focused on the activation of individuals into employment.. This … gender pay gap; and has often resulted in the weakening of traditional social protection. We study the individual poverty … gender pay gap. Benefits cushion some of the gendered labour market dierences but are often not generous enough for …
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Women in paid employment: a role for public policies and social norms in Guatemala
Almeida, Rita; Viollaz, Mariana - 2022
With only 32% of active age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper middle-income country with one of the lowest rates of female labor force participation in the Latin America and the Caribbean region, and in the world. The rate of female labor participation is especially low in the...
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Young women's transitions from education to the labour market in Ethiopia : a gendered life-course perspective
Admasu, Yeshwas; Crivello, Gina; Porter, Catherine - 2021
We investigate the causes of the gender disparity in labour market participation in Ethiopia using iterative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012545484
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Women's mobility and labor supply : experimental evidence from Pakistan
Field, Erica Marie; Vyborny, Kate - 2022
In cities with conservative norms or high crime, female workers may face greater restrictions on their, physical mobility. This limits women’s labor market opportunities and the pool of workers that firms, can attract. In this study, we experimentally vary access to a transport service in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013185231
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"She helps me all the time" : underestimating women's economic engagement in rural Honduras
Muller, Miriam; Sousa, Liliana D. - 2020
, and the concepts of housework and employment are taken as mutually exclusive. Second, given this duality between housework … and employment, women define "employment" based on a set of necessary characteristics that exclude many of their own …
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Obstacles to labour market participation among Arab women in Israel
Miaari, Sami H.; Khattab, Nabil; Sabbah-Karkabi, Maha - 2020
This study investigates the factors that underlay the low labour force participation rate among Palestinian-Arab women in Israel relative to Jewish women despite the high educational attainment among this group. We focus on four factors that could explain this pattern: (i) socioeconomic factors...
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