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intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes and norms as determinants of women's labour force participation in industrialized … brief case study of women's labour force participation in India, where the direct link between gender attitudes and women …Women have historically been overlooked in research on social mobility. In contrast, new research focuses on the …
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-related gender inequality in earnings and (ii) assesses the impact of family policies on this inequality. We present three sets of … the 2000s. Second, we decompose overall gender inequality into child-related and child-unrelated components. Over our …-third to the increase in child-related gender inequality. Instead, a parental benefit reform in 2007 mitigated further …
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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 … retirement of Arab women from the labour market. We find that all four of these factors affect the probability of Palestinian …
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, differential effects by gender, couple status, and parental status exist. Coupled women were less likely to be working than coupled … men, while single women were more likely to be working than single men. However, fathers of school-age children who …
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With only 32% of active age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper middle-income country with one of the … was partly explained by the drastic increases in the school attainment of women, the reduction in fertility and the … show that social norms, attitudes towards women in the society and public policies are important determinants of these …
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mobility. This limits women’s labor market opportunities and the pool of workers that firms, can attract. In this study, we …, women, and the differential impact of, transport exclusively for women. We show that reducing physical mobility constraints … has a large, impact on job searching for women, including women who are not searching at baseline. Women’s, response is …
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, and the women worked closer to home. Next, due to the common pool nature of irrigation water, historically irrigation has … involved more frequent warfare. This raised the social status of men and restricted women's movement. These two mechanisms have …
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As a result of Title IX, there has been a large increase in participation of women in college sports, while men … between women's and men's sports before and after the Title IX regulation is imposed. If the number of women's and men …'s sports is held constant, the model predicts an increase in resources devoted to women's sports which is matched by a one …
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women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in …Social norms and attitudes towards gender roles have been shown to have a large effect on economic outcomes of men and … caused a sharp increase in the take-up of parental leave by fathers, has changed the attitudes towards gender roles in the …
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women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in …Social norms and attitudes towards gender roles have been shown to have a large effect on economic outcomes of men and … caused a sharp increase in the take-up of parental leave by fathers, has changed the attitudes towards gender roles in the …
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