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women, where men's employment is nearly back to original levels by 2021Q2. Women, on the other hand, experienced persistent …
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We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence against women in Germany in 2020. The analysis draws …
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This paper considers whether the COVID-19 stay-at-home order affected crimes targeting women. To answer this question …, lapses in alimony, domestic violence, and femicides. Using the NPSS, we track monthly changes in crimes targeting women using … analyze potential mechanisms for the reduction in crimes against women. We find that infection risk, victim-criminal match …
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Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women’s careers … around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? Using longitudinal … that expanded paid leave from 30 weeks in 1989 to 52 weeks in 1993. The representation of women in top positions has only …
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Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women's careers … around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? Using longitudinal … that expanded paid leave from 30 weeks in 1989 to 52 weeks in 1993. The representation of women in top positions has only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226692
This study examines the relationship between gender-related aid and legal frameworks governing women's economic … influence the Women, Business, and Law (WBL) Index, which measures women's access to employment, credit, and entrepreneurship …
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We deliver one month's average profit to a randomly selected group of female microenterprise owners in the Kenyan slum of Dandora, just preceding with the exponential growth of COVID-19 cases. Firm profit, inventory spending, and food expenditures all increase. The transfers simultaneously cause...
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This paper provides a clear and transparent setting to study the effect of additional pension benefits on women … contribution, which led to sharply different slopes of benefits for similar women to the left and to the right of the kink point … subsidy program can account for one third of the increase in women's age of claiming pension over the past decade …
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for gender-informed public job creation in areas that mitigate the “time-tax” burdens of women, and examines a South …
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The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand … facilities. We provide projections of possible impacts of this reduction on less-educated women's future human capital framed … experience. We develop a new and modified form of the Mincerian log wage equation which we argue captures the effect of women …
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