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This paper aims at providing new evidence over the effect of conventional monetary policy shocks on wage inequality through the earnings heterogeneity channel under the inflationtargeting regime implemented in South Africa since 2000. The empirical contribution follows previous studies by...
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This paper theoretically analyzes the macroeconomic effects of gender discrimination against women in the labor market in a New Keynesian model. We extend standard frameworks by including unpaid household production in addition to paid labor market work, by assuming that the representative...
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This paper theoretically analyzes the macroeconomic effects of gender discrimination against women in the labor market in a New Keynesian model. We extend standard frameworks by including unpaid household production in addition to paid labor market work, by assuming that the representative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012062713
The purpose of this research is to demonstrate the benefits of monetary policy based on wage equality in the labor market. The investigation considers the unpaid work that women assume, within the household. The results demonstrate wage discrimination between men and women is related to...
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We contrast the socio-demographic profiles and degree of information received by women that were sterilized with women that used other contraceptive methods. We use data from the 2016 round of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) for Peru and compare these profiles with those of the 2000s,...
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make a descriptive analysis, a projection of total sterilizations, and an estimation of the probability that a woman be … children, about side effects, what to do about them, and that there were alternative contraceptive methods. With additional … 25,000 sterilized women did not receive information that the sterilization implied not being able to have more children …
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make a descriptive analysis, a projection of total sterilizations, and an estimation of the probability that a woman be … children, about side effects, what to do about them, and that there were alternative contraceptive methods. With additional … 25,000 sterilized women did not receive information that the sterilization implied not being able to have more children …
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The studies on monetary policy highlight that a contractionary policy reduces a firm's access to external funds. However, it is unknown whether it affects men and women equally. In this scenario, the aim of this paper is twofold. First, to investigate the differential effect of monetary policy...
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Models on the optimal design of monetary policy typically rely on a social welfare loss function defined over inflation and unemployment. Our estimates of such a function use measures of two different dimensions of well-being that have been distinguished by recent research. The first is...
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