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This paper investigates the effects of institutionalized gender inequality, proxied by a women's rights index, on the … migration choice I find non-linear effects of gender inequality on the female brain drain ratio as a result of effects of gender …
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in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much … the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …
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This paper presents evidence of the effects of gender diversity on firm innovation outcomes and their productivity in … endogeneity issues of women’s participation in STI and innovation behavior. An upward bias of the impact of gender diversity on … innovation might arise because more dynamic and innovative managers, knowing the value of gender diversity, may also hire more …
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Innovation generally takes place in male-dominated industries. A gender gap might therefore exist. This study used data … from the 2015 Tanzania Firm-Level Skills Survey to investigate the gender innovation gap between female-owned enterprises … innovation when compared to male-owned enterprises. The endowments effect had a positive association with the gender innovation …
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datasets, I assessed the gender gap in wealth and income, which averaged around 25% across provinces. This indicates that the … equal access to property established in 1715 led to Russia becoming a relatively gender-equal country over the following …
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We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy that leverages state-level changes in maximum benefits over time and comparisons across workers who have been laid off and those that have not been laid off. The results indicate...
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We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century …
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gender-based indices constructed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and suggests alternatives for choice of … variables, functional form, and weights. While the UNDP Gender Inequality Index (GII) conceptually reflects the loss in …, resulting in only the partial capture of gender inequalities. Since the dimensions used for the GII are different from those in …
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Though gender equality has been at the centre of debate over the last decades, a number of benefits concerning the … terms. The goal is to contribute to the literature streams on gender economics and on sustainable finance. Most research on … develops disaggregate scores for each dimension, but also provides motivation for the measurement of gender equality by means …
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This paper investigates whether female political representation in national parliaments influences climate change policy outcomes. Based on data from a large sample of countries, we demonstrate that female representation leads countries to adopt more stringent climate change policies. We exploit...
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