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We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender gap has … conditional employment probabilities of married women, as compared with men, is the other factor. These findings point at …
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the unemployment rate. Gender impact was noticeable especially in the employment decrease periods. For data after the year …Discrimination based on gender is commonly observed on labor markets, although its scale and symptoms are different … with regard to country and are subject to changes over time. Gender-related diverse flows on the labor market constitute …
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This study investigates the factors that underlay the low labour force participation rate among Palestinian-Arab women in Israel relative to Jewish women despite the high educational attainment among this group. We focus on four factors that could explain this pattern: (i) socioeconomic factors...
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Analyzing gender gaps of unemployed job-seekers, this study uniquely complements the broad literature focussing … predominantly on gender gaps of employed workers. I consider a broad range of labor market outcomes, and disentangle the factors … disparities including differences of local employment offices, which are assigned to place unemployed job-seekers, are of minor …
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probit model to analyse gender differences in labour force participation and gender bias in formal wage employment in urban … likely to get formal wage employment, suggesting the existence of gender bias in the labour market in urban areas of Tanzania … wage employment probability differential suggests that the possibility of gender discrimination against women in urban …
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This study examines the initial impact of COVID-19 shutdowns on the employment and hours of unincorporated self …-employed workers using data from the Current Population Survey. Although the shutdowns decreased employment and hours for all groups …, differential effects by gender, couple status, and parental status exist. Coupled women were less likely to be working than coupled …
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developing countries. This paper quantifies the causal impacts of improved urban transport systems in women´s employment outcomes … gains in employment and earnings per hour among women, and not for men, due to these investments. Most of the gains arise on … the extensive margin, with more women being employed, but employment does not appear to be of higher quality than that for …
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to examine gender in the labour market, with specific reference to the South African Revenue Services (SARS) tax data …, with a focus on the gender dynamics of the labour market. Last, this paper identifies the areas in which the availability … of the SARS data has made new research possible, specifically in the gender dynamics of the South African labour market …
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on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the extent to which gender differences occur in the … development of one particular aspect of personality, locus of control. Gender differences were more pronounced in the results for … gender differences. We conclude by arguing that an explicitly value-laden analysis of the rewards associated with personality …
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This study explores how both gender and facial attractiveness affect job candidates' chances of obtaining interviews in …
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