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adverse effect of Covid-19 on labor market outcomes of all demographic groups, a widening gap between the employment prospects … makers when implementing policies to combat race and ethnic, and gender gaps in the labor market. …
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We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender gap has … conditional employment probabilities of married women, as compared with men, is the other factor. These findings point at …
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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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In this study, we explore the correlates of the employment gender gap among urban youth in Mozambique. Young people are … education, employment, fertility, social life, gender norms and more, we observe an increase of 10 percentage points in the raw … employment gender gap over time to the disadvantage of young women. Exploiting the longitudinal nature of our data, we apply two …
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Analyzing gender gaps of unemployed job-seekers, this study uniquely complements the broad literature focussing … predominantly on gender gaps of employed workers. I consider a broad range of labor market outcomes, and disentangle the factors … disparities including differences of local employment offices, which are assigned to place unemployed job-seekers, are of minor …
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probit model to analyse gender differences in labour force participation and gender bias in formal wage employment in urban … likely to get formal wage employment, suggesting the existence of gender bias in the labour market in urban areas of Tanzania … wage employment probability differential suggests that the possibility of gender discrimination against women in urban …
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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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We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has … find robust evidence that, after controlling for selection, there were large declines in the raw and the unexplained gender … and actual labor market experience. However, we note that substantial gender wage gaps remain. In 2015, at the median, the …
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Gender disparities in wages among professionals exist because women begin their professional careers making less than … inequality, we examine if trial employment affects initial salaries by providing employers a first-hand look at candidates prior … discount dissipates when offers are received from employers where trial employment takes place …
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This paper investigates the evolution of the gender wage gap in South Africa, using the 1993-2015 Post-Apartheid Labour …-paying industries However, the median gender wage gap is substantial at 23-35 per cent. This is unexplained by differences in human …
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