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Automation and Gender : Implications for Occupational Segregation and the Gender Skill Gap
Cortés, Patricia; Feng, Ying; Guida-Johnson, Nicolás; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine the differential effects of automation on the labor market and educational outcomes of women relative to men over the past four decades. Although women were disproportionately employed in occupations with a high risk of automation in 1980, they were more likely to shift to high-skill,...
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Gendered Effects of COVID-19 in India : A Metanalysis
Gupta, Shagufta; Ghosh, Poulomi; Bindal, Shalu - 2021
to ensure a full and fast recovery. This seems inconceivable in the case of India, taking into perspective the pre …, a large pre-existing gender digital divide in India has further exacerbated the problem of access to information and … services. Only 29 percent of internet users in India are women. In today’s online learning and working reality, this has grave …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250974
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Browsers Don't Lie? Gender Differences in the Effects of the Indian COVID-19 Lockdown on Digital Activity and Time Use
Miller, Amalia R.; Ramdas, Kamalini; Sungu, Alp - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We measure the impact of the initial Indian national COVID-19 lockdown on digital activity using browser histories of 1,094 individuals, spanning over 31.5 million website visits on computers and mobile devices. Reflecting the predicted increase in the value of online activity, both men and...
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How the COVID-19 lockdown affected gender inequality in paid and unpaid work in Spain
Farré, Lídia; Fawaz, Yarine; González, Libertad; … - 2020
The covid-19 pandemic led many countries to close schools and declare lockdowns during the Spring of 2020, with important impacts on the labor market. We document the effects of the covid-19 lockdown in Spain, which was hit early and hard by the pandemic and suffered one of the strictest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243435
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The labor market effects of drug-related violence in a transit country
Ham, Andrés; Ruiz, Juanita - 2024
We estimate the effects of drug-related violence on individual labor market outcomes in a transit country. Transit countries do not have enough market power to determine the global supply or demand of drugs yet must deal with the consequences from drug trafficking activities. We implement a...
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Lockdown and rural joblessness in India : gender inequality in employment?
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal - 2022
India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly … disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India …, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …
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Macroeconomic Impacts of Gender Inequality and Informality in India
Khera, Purva - 2016
This paper examines the macroeconomic interaction between informality and gender inequality in the labor market. A dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model is built to study the impact of gender-targeted policies on female labor force participation, female formal employment, gender wage gap,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996098
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Sorting through affirmative action : three field experiments in Colombia
Ibañez, Marcela; Rai, Ashok; Riener, Gerhard - 2015
Affirmative action to promote women's employment is a intensely debated policy. Do affirmative action policies attract women and does it come at a cost of deterring high qualified men? In three field experiments in Colombia we compare characteristics of job-seekers who are told of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507681
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Labor market effects of high school science majors in a high STEM economy
Jain, Tarun; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Prakash, Nishith; … - 2018
using nationally representative data on high school subject choices and adult outcomes for urban males in India. Results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947723
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Labor market effects of high school science majors in a high STEM economy
Jain, Tarun; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Prakash, Nishith; … - 2018
using nationally representative data on high school subject choices and adult outcomes for urban males in India. Results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011937766