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This paper studies the impact of migrant children on their parents' occupation choice and wage income using a dataset from a household survey conducted in 2011. We find that the heads of migrant households with school-age children earn significantly less than those who left them at their place...
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by gender to the exposure to tariff reductions on locally imported products. Our empirical results show that increasing … import competition has kept more females in the workforce, reducing an otherwise growing gender employment gap in the long … pressures contributed to a general expansion of female-intensive industries, a shift in sectoral gender segregation, reductions …
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The gender wage gap increased significantly in Egypt over the last two decades, while female labor force participation …, increased import competition is associated with higher gender wage gaps and lower female employment. Increased export intensity … on the other hand is associated with a lower gender wage gap, but lower female employment. Conversely, opening up to …
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integration measures on gender employment and wages. The study incorporates gender-differentiated employment and wages for … green trade sectors. This is the first major attempt to develop a gender-differentiated data set for South Asian countries …, within the widely used Global Trade Analysis Project framework, to examine the nexus between trade, green economy, and gender …
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educational attainment or skills. Gender is a further dimension in which the impacts of trade liberalization can differ. In a … globalizing world it is important to understand whether and how trade policy can contribute toward enhancing gender convergence in …
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by gender to the exposure to tariff reductions on locally imported products. Our empirical results show that increasing … import competition has kept more females in the workforce, reducing an otherwise growing gender employment gap in the long … pressures contributed to a general expansion of female-intensive industries, a shift in sectoral gender segregation, reductions …
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