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Gendering technological change: evidence from agricultural mechanization
Afridi, Farzana; Bishnu, Monisankar; Mahajan, Kanika - 2020
Technological change in production processes with gendered division of labor across tasks, such as agriculture, can have a differential impact on women's and men's labor. Using exogenous variation in the extent of loamy soil, which is more amenable to deep tillage than clayey soil and therefore...
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What happened to real earnings in Egypt, 2008 to 2009?
Cichello, Paul L.; Abou-Ali, Hala; Marotta, Daniela - In: IZA journal of labor & development 2 (2013), pp. 1-38
Nominal earnings in Egypt did not respond to the increase in inflation between February 2008 and February 2009, resulting in a 12.3 (9) percent decline in average (median) real earnings among 25 to 60 years old workers. Changes in earnings differ significantly by groups: (i) those with higher...
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Gender Wage Gap in The Agricultural Labor Market of India : An Empirical Analysis
Kundu, Amit - 2019
The gender wage gap in the agricultural labor market is observed in all the states of India. This paper will try to … identify possible policies which can reduce this gender wise wage discrimination in agricultural labor market. We consider the … period between 2010-11 to 2015-16 and 18 major states of India. The possible factors which can create an impact on gender …
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Technical Change and Gender Wage Inequality : Long-Run Effects of India's Green Revolution
D'Agostino, Anthony - 2019
estimate the effect of India’s Green Revolution on the gender wage gap in village labor markets. Widely considered the country … and losers, and offers an example of productivity growth that exacerbated gender disparities …
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Assessing gender gaps in employment and earnings in Africa: the case of Eswatini
Brixiova, Zuzana; Imai, Susumu; Kangoye, Thierry; … - 2021
Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor … market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender … the global financial crisis had a less negative impact on women than it had on men. Both unadjusted and unexplained gender …
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The effects of international scrutiny on manufacturing workers: evidence from the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh
Bossavie, Laurent; Cho, Yoonyoung; Heath, Rachel - 2020
After the tragic factory collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013, both the direct reforms and indirect responses of retailers have plausibly affected workers in the Ready Made Garment (RMG) sector in Bangladesh. These responses included a minimum wage increase, high profile but voluntary audits, and an...
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Assessing gender gaps in employment and earnings in Africa : the case of Eswatini
Brixiova, Zuzana; Imai, Susumu; Kangoye, Thierry; … - 2021
Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor … market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender … the global financial crisis had a less negative impact on women than it had on men. Both unadjusted and unexplained gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507715
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Cognitive, non-cognitive skills and gender wage gaps : evidence from linked employer-employee data in Bangladesh
Nordman, Christophe J.; Sarr, Leopold R.; Sharma, Smriti - 2015
We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender … unexplained gender gap, mainly in the upper parts of the wage distribution. Finally, results suggest that employers place greater … existence of sex-specific skills of their workers, which could then widen the within-firm gender wage gap. …
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Informal Workers’ Gender Wage Gap Across Thailand’s Regions and Economic Sectors
Pooittiwong, Anchalee - 2017
This study aims to integrate two issues surrounding Thailand's labor market: (1) gender wage gap and (2) informal … workers. The purpose of this study is to examine the gender wage gap of formal and informal workers in Thailand by geographic …-Oaxaca decomposition. The results of this study confirm that there is a gender wage gap in Thailand. Even when females have better …
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Cognitive, Non-Cognitive Skills and Gender Wage Gaps : Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data in Bangladesh
Nordman, Christophe J. - 2015
We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender … unexplained gender gap, mainly in the upper parts of the wage distribution. Finally, results suggest that employers place greater … existence of sex-specific skills of their workers, which could then widen the within-firm gender wage gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016363