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The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … large and comparable data sets or to conventional approaches that limit the possibilities to compare men and women. …
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In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with … moving from an origin with relatively low women's rights to a destination with a relatively high level of women's rights …. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the level of women's rights provided. The model predicts a non …
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job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment transition probabilities for women than men when controlling for individual and … considerably lower and also significantly less wage-elastic for women than for men …
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In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with … moving from an origin with relatively low women´s rights to a destination with a relatively high women´s rights. However, the … costs faced by women are decreasing in the level of women´s rights provided. The model predicts a non-linear relationship …
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market participation through gender lens. Results show that women's education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work … therefore suggest that, women need to be educated above secondary level to become visible in the labour market …
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In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with … moving from an origin with relatively low women's rights to a destination with a relatively high level of women's rights …. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the level of women's rights provided. The model predicts a non …
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Previous studies found mixed answers whether women-owned firms are less successful than men-owned firms. Women … same survival rate as a man-owned firms. Women start their firms with smaller assets and fewer employees and generate lower … same as their male-owned counterparts. We found no gender gaps in debt capital injection ratios. However, we found women …
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Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women (NSDVW) and the 1997 compulsory schooling … women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners …. The authors also claim that the incidence of financial control behavior rises because women become more likely to be …
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Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women (NSDVW) and the 1997 compulsory schooling … women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners …. The authors also claim that the incidence of financial control behavior rises because women become more likely to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624582
In this paper, we explore the links between polygyny and female labour supply in Senegal using a nationally representative survey. In a reduced-form approach, we first measure the impact of polygyny on participation using a joint model of spouse participation. The identification of the impact of...
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