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stagnant in transition economies. Admittedly, employment equality among genders was initially much higher in transition …Women in developed economies have experienced an unparalleled increase in employment rates, to the point that the gap … positions more frequently occupied by women, improved educational attainment). Meanwhile, the gender employment gaps were …
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stagnant in transition economies. Admittedly, employment equality among genders was initially much higher in transition …Women in developed economies have experienced an unparalleled increase in employment rates, to the point that the gap … positions more frequently occupied by women, improved educational attainment). Meanwhile, the gender employment gaps were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011863381
The study has contributed to the extant literature on the relevance of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) by assessing how financial development dynamics can moderate the incidence of African trade integration on female labour force participation. The focus is on 47 African...
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This paper uses the task-content-of-occupations framework to analyze trends in employment and wages of female and male …: nonroutine cognitive, routine cognitive, nonroutine manual, and routine manual. Decomposing the changes in employment shares into … between-industry changes and within-industry changes across occupational categories reveals that within-industry employment …
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employment. Family policies that subsidize childcare and increase its availability have different effects on female labor supply … may depend on countryspecific pre-reform female employment and earnings, and childcare availability, costs, and quality. …
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We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has fallen since 1981. Previous research has found divergent results across techniques, identification strategies, data sets, and time periods. Using Michigan Panel Study of Income...
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inequality, we examine if trial employment affects initial salaries by providing employers a first-hand look at candidates prior … discount dissipates when offers are received from employers where trial employment takes place …
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The prevalence of male incarceration in the United States has important unintended consequences for women. Two early studies find positive external effects of male incarceration on female labor market outcomes in general. However, we know very little about the labor market outcomes of women...
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Employment and participation rates for US prime age women rose steadily during the second half of the 20th century. In … the last 30 years, however, those rates stagnated, even as employment and participation rates for women in other … barriers, such as limited investment in family policies, that may be holding back employment among American women today. The …
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labour force participation, female unemployment and female employment. The Generalised Method of Moments is employed as … the promotion of female employment are: (i) 120.369 and 85.533 mobile phone penetration per 100 people for respectively …
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