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This paper explores how the relative circumstances of men and women following marital dissolution affect sex-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property rights after separation. We use this improvement in...
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the measurement tools employed today in two developing countries - Jamaica and the Dominican Republic - showing how …
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and Canada, the paper examines the foundation and present-day experiences of DTCs in Jamaica. It also refers to some … concludes with a return to the achievements of DTCs in Jamaica and a brief look at the future of the DTC program worldwide. …
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In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an …
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-level modeling techniques, this paper explores the macro-level determinants of the gender poverty gap in the ten post …-socialist European Union member states. In dialogue with the literature on the impact of economic development on gender inequality in … Asia and Latin America, we find that fast-paced, foreign capital led economic growth is associated with a larger gender …
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There are large international differences in the gender pay gap. In some developed countries in 2010-2012, women were … education and experience and commonly work in different industries and occupations, multiple factors can influence the gender … to education, experience, and occupational wage differentials. Systems of wage compression narrow the gender pay gap but …
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