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This study seeks to determine the effect on the gender employment gap and women's employment of the extension of … extensions of maternity leave and the gender employment gap in Viet Nam. The findings show that, on average, the new law did not … exacerbate the gender employment gap, and there was a narrowing of the gap in the formal jobs sector compared to the waged jobs …
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This paper uses the task-content-of-occupations framework to analyze trends in employment and wages of female and male …: nonroutine cognitive, routine cognitive, nonroutine manual, and routine manual. Decomposing the changes in employment shares into … between-industry changes and within-industry changes across occupational categories reveals that within-industry employment …
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This paper analyzes the historical evidence of the gender gap in employment and wages in Mexico. We construct … consistent time series from 1988:Q1 to 2019:Q4 using employment surveys, and estimate a model of labor participation in the … formal market and wages for each gender and quarter, correcting selection biases. Based on these results, we implement a …
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in domestic markets, and how it affects relative wages and formal employment between men and women. Using the Revealed … sector compared to men. This study focuses on the role of international trade as a source of increased competitive pressure … labour force surveys that contain information on sectoral employment and earnings. We find that sectors of comparative …
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women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri …
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the unemployment rate. Gender impact was noticeable especially in the employment decrease periods. For data after the year …
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gaps in employment and earnings. We find that women have notably lower employment rates and earnings than men, even though … earnings gaps are higher in self-employment than in wage employment. Tertiary education and urban location account for a large … part of the gender earnings gap and mitigate high female propensity to self-employment. Our findings suggest that policies …
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gaps in employment and earnings. We find that women have notably lower employment rates and earnings than men, even though … earnings gaps are higher in self-employment than in wage employment. Tertiary education and urban location account for a large … part of the gender earnings gap and mitigate high female propensity to self-employment. Our findings suggest that policies …
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. For ten years prior to recession, female employment improved, mainly due to the expansion of the tertiary sector and …) and salary (and lower contribution bases attached to them). We can delve into the structure of wages in Catalonia (Spain … Pietra index to quantify the dispersion in the distribution of wages between men and women and for this purpose the model of …
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employment and wages between the mid-2000s and the late-2010s emphasizing the gender dimension from the viewpoint of the task …. (ii) The employment structure is considerably more biased towards high-RTC jobs in Latin America than in OECD countries …, for both genders. (iii) There was an increase in the employment participation of low-RTC jobs during the period under …
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