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International Women's Convention, Democracy and Gender Equality
Cho, Seo-Young - 2016
cultural practice toward gender equality and this effect is conditional on the level of democracy of a member state. However …, the joint effect of CEDAW and democracy does not seem to create any significant impact on women’s political and economic … rights, nor does CEDAW or democracy alone affect any dimension of the women’s rights. These results indicate that …
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Institutionalized inequality and brain drain : an empirical study of the effects of women's rights on the gender gap in high-skilled migration
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam - 2013
This paper investigates the effects of institutionalized gender inequality, proxied by a women's rights index, on the female high-skilled migration rates relative to that of male (the female brain drain ratio). By developing a model of migration choice I find non-linear effects of gender...
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Female brain drains and women's rights gaps : a gravity model analysis of bilateral migration flows
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam; Young, Andrew T. - 2014
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...
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What Goes into a Medal : Women's Inclusion and Success at the Olympic Games
Noland, Marcus; Stahler, Kevin - 2014
This paper examines determinants of women's participation and performance in the Olympics. Female inclusion and success are not merely functions of size, wealth, and host advantage, but a more complex process involving the socioeconomic status of women and, more weakly, broad societal attitudes...
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Gendered Aid and Women’s Rights
Minasyan, Anna; Montinola, Gabriella - 2023
We study the role of development cooperation in improving women’s economic rights in non-OECD countries and assess whether development aid given for gender equality objectives leads to progress in women’s legal rights in recipient countries. We use a sample of over 100 recipient countries...
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Migration, Development, and the Promise of CEDAW for Rural Women
Pruitt, Lisa R. - 2009
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Poverty and the Hidden Effects of Sex Discrimination : An Empirical Study of Inequality
Day, Gregory - 2016
Sexist laws are more prevalent in regions where poverty is endemic. The corollary is also true; the places where women experience less discrimination are typically more developed. The legal academy has drawn several inferences from this observation, including that poverty and the development...
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Female Employment and Turkey's EU Accession Process
Munin, Nellie - 2015
The Mediterranean region faces the same effects of the global economic crisis as the rest of the world. Economists agree that enhanced growth is necessary for countries to get out of this crisis, which is characterized, inter alia, by growing national budgetary deficits and debts. While ways...
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Gender Equality and Women at Law in Cuba
Paparelli, K. - 2016
This paper addresses gender equality in Cuba, tracing its development from the days of the revolution to present day with an emphasis on women working in the field of law. This article is being published by the Florida Bar International Law Section Journal for its Spring 2016 edition, and is...
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