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-level modeling techniques, this paper explores the macro-level determinants of the gender poverty gap in the ten post …-socialist European Union member states. In dialogue with the literature on the impact of economic development on gender inequality in … Asia and Latin America, we find that fast-paced, foreign capital led economic growth is associated with a larger gender …
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identifies linkages between gender, economic development, and growth, however. This paper explores the macro effects of gender …, transmitted via the productive sector and in the household, in part due to the tendency for work - paid and unpaid - to be gender …-segregated. Macro-level policies in turn can have differential effects on men and women. Evidence that gender equality is itself a …
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Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that … empirical assessment of the relative importance of development and historical determinants of gender equality at the cross …-national level. To capture this long-term relationship, a new index of gender equality that stretches back to 1960 is introduced …
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The main purpose of this paper is to look at the incorporation of gender and the informal sector within a general … equilibrium framework for India. Moreover, we clarify some important links between a gender aware informal sector based social … special case the fixed price multiplier (FPM) models. In particular, economy wide modelling of gender and the informal sector …
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social policy trajectories in Mainland Tanzania with a gender lens, to better understand the contributions of these … advancements in the legal frameworks and increasingly gender-responsive government policy plans, Tanzanian social policy delivery …
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The objective of this study is to explore the gender dynamics of globalization and human development at the individual … regards the gender perspective, the effect of environmental globalization on human development is stronger for females than … their human development and achieve a more equitable society (in terms of gender equality) in the era of globalization …
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Does culture affect female labor supply? In this paper, we address this question using a recent approach to measuring the effects of culture on economic outcomes, i.e. the epidemiological approach. We focus on migrants, who come from different cultures, but who share a common economic and...
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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 … importance. Married women and those with young children perform particularly bad compared to men. High unexplainable gender gaps …
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disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …
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