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Are Women More Opposed to Wife Beating than Men? An Empirical Study of 60 Countries
McGee, Robert W. - 2017
Wife beating, spousal abuse, domestic violence, or whatever else you want to call it, has been around for centuries, probably since the beginning of human existence. There are several reasons why this kind of behavior exists, but the present paper will not get into those reasons. For more on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014121038
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Motherhood Employment Penalty and Gender Wage Gap Across Countries : 1990–2010
Chu, Yu-Wei Luke - 2020
participation using 70 censuses from 36 countries in 1990–2010. We document a strong relationship between the gender wage gap and … the size of the motherhood penalty. The penalty is smallest in countries with small gender wage gaps. Both cross- and … within-country relationships between motherhood penalty and gender wage gap remain strong and negative even when we condition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835888
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Demographics Will Reverse Three Multi-Decade Global Trends
Goodhart, Charles - 2017
Between the 1980s and the 2000s, the largest ever positive labour supply shock occurred, resulting from demographic trends and from the inclusion of China and eastern Europe into the World Trade Organization. This led to a shift in manufacturing to Asia, especially China; a stagnation in real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950258
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Gender and aging : demographic dimensions
Gist, Yvonne J. (contributor);  … - 1997 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002120371
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Gender and aging : mortality and health
Kinsella, Kevin G. (contributor);  … - 1998 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002120378
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The sex and age distribution of the world populations
Vereinte Nationen / Department of Economic and Social … - New York, NY : United Nations - 1992(1993); 1994; 1996(1997)
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The economics of trafficking for sexual exploitation
Jakobsson, Niklas; Kotsadam, Andreas - 2015 - This version March 11, 2015
International human trafficking of women for commercial sexual exploitation (henceforth trafficking) is an economic activity in which organizations try to make profits. Trafficking has been identified as a form of modern-day slavery and is a worldwide problem which has grown rapidly in the last...
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Liberal coercion? : prostitution, human trafficking and policy
Cho, Seo-young - 2013
Liberal prostitution policy aims at improving labour conditions for prostitutes and protecting victims of forced prostitution. Its policy orientation predicts that the policy choice of liberalizing prostitution is positively associated with better protection policy for trafficking victims and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010126847
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Is There a Correlation between Religion and Wife Beating? An Empirical Study of 11 Countries
McGee, Robert W. - 2017
Wife beating, spousal abuse, domestic violence, or whatever else you want to call it, has been around for centuries, probably since the beginning of human existence. There are several reasons why this kind of behavior exists, but the present paper will not get into those reasons. For more on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014121034
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Searching for a Room of One's Own in Cyberspace : Datafication and the Global Feminisation of Privacy
Kovacs, Anja - 2023
Since its conceptualisation, the construction of privacy has been deeply gendered, as women and gender and sexual … consequence, the watered-down, inferior version of privacy that women and sexual and gender minorities historically have been … jurisprudence in particular, through a fundamental curtailment of the decisional autonomy of women and gender and sexual minorities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358657