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's employment policies from a gender perspective by adopting a functional approach. We examine policies with (1) a labour market … needs to be done to enhance women's access to assets, skills training, and better-quality employment. Further gender …
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social policy trajectories in Mainland Tanzania with a gender lens, to better understand the contributions of these … advancements in the legal frameworks and increasingly gender-responsive government policy plans, Tanzanian social policy delivery …
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We complement the institutional literature on gender and the welfare state by examining how taxes and transfers affect … various welfare regime types. We quantify the extent to which taxes and transfers are able to close the gender gap in earnings …-age pensions, taxes and transfers - both contributory and means-tested - significantly reduce gender income inequality but cannot …
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The paper is dedicated to the study of the process of gender analysis of public spending allocated by the Government to … contain discrimination by first of all, gender, experience, field of activity or other factors. The main objective of this … work is to study the gender budgeting initiatives, all their forms, their primary purpose and influence on the budget …
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In this paper we develop an approach to measuring inequality and poverty that recognizes the fact that individuals within households may have both different preferences and differential access to resources. We argue that a measure based on estimates of the sharing rule is inadequate as an...
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Women are more likely than men to work in the informal sector and to drop out of the labor force for a time, such as after childbirth, and to be impeded by social norms from working in the formal sector. This work pattern undermines productivity, increases women's vulnerability to income shocks,...
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grapple with important gender inequalities. This paper examines, first, the evolution and effects of Tanzania's social … families as an instrument for gender-responsive social protection expansion. The simulation findings indicate that introducing …
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There is a burgeoning literature on the significance and distribution of wealth in the rich world. It mainly focuses on the top. Wealth remains remarkably absent from the analysis of poverty and the redistributive effectiveness of welfare systems. This paper shows that real and financial assets...
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, Germany, France, and Sweden) that represent the principal types of welfare and gender regimes, we propose ways of … and gender regimes that exist in these countries, in ways that correspond to the lived reality of people's daily lives …. -- autonomy ; discretionary time ; gender ; state ; time use ; welfare …
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This paper deals with the coverage of long-term care (LTC) in Germany since the post-war period. Until the 1990s, long-term care was mainly a task of the family with means-tested, tax-financed care assistance as a last resort. In 1994, after two decades of political debate, the German parliament...
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