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piped drinking water (IPDW) on employment and earnings by gender, the self-reported health of women, the prevalence of … juxtaposition of water infrastructure and gender differences at the household level. We use spatiotemporal data from the largest … gender disaggregated human development survey in India (2005-2012) and carry out econometric analyses using individual fixed …
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improves their access to off-farm employment. The gender gap persists for married young women independent of connectivity …Gender gaps in labour force participation in developing countries persist despite income growth or structural change …. We assess this persistence across economic geographies within countries, focusing on youth employment in off-farm wage …
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-assistance programs. However, cash transfers can also increase employment. Using variation across cohorts and over time in the eligibility … criteria of a nationwide conditional cash-transfer program in Bolivian public schools, this paper shows that employment … increases among parents of eligible children, particularly for females. The increase in employment coincides with increases in …
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What is the effect of urban expansion on the gender wage gap of rural residents? Although much is known about the … relationship between urbanization and income, little evidence shows the impact of urbanization on gender inequality, especially the … China as a natural experiment, we find that the gender wage gap of new municipal districts has widened in the merged …
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fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender composition of employment. We show that contractionary non-fiscal shocks … lead to man-cessions, i.e. employment falls and more strongly so for men. By contrast, an expansionary fiscal shock … predominantly raises the employment of women. Taken together, these results imply a trade-off dilemma for policy that seeks to …
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empirically investigate the dynamics and drivers of gender gaps in employment rates, wages and workhours during the pandemic … experienced a major decline in their employment rate and workhours, as well as gender segregation in the most affected industries …. Relying on Estonian Labour Force Survey data, we document that the pandemic has, if anything, reduced gender inequality in all …
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the global financial crisis had a less negative impact on women than it had on men. Both unadjusted and unexplained gender … part of the gender earnings gap and mitigate high female propensity to self-employment. Our findings suggest that policies …Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor …
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the unemployment rate. Gender impact was noticeable especially in the employment decrease periods. For data after the year …Discrimination based on gender is commonly observed on labor markets, although its scale and symptoms are different … with regard to country and are subject to changes over time. Gender-related diverse flows on the labor market constitute …
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the global financial crisis had a less negative impact on women than it had on men. Both unadjusted and unexplained gender … part of the gender earnings gap and mitigate high female propensity to self-employment. Our findings suggest that policies …Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507715
in reducing gender gap in employment. … education, we find a large and positive effect of tertiary education on employment. It confirms the important role of education …
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