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. The strongest impact on the distribution of labour earnings would take place in countries with high gender pay gaps for … equal work and small gender gaps in employment and hours worked (mainly Central and Eastern European countries), whereas … only marginal effects are identified in countries with large gaps in hours worked and gender segregation in the type of …
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treatment and the gender gaps which, considering the expansion of this practice, lead to important policy issues. …
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The OECD review of Gender Equality in Peru: Towards a Better Sharing of Paid and Unpaid Work is the second of a series … focusing on Latin American and the Caribbean countries. It compares gender gaps in labour and educational outcomes in Peru with … report reviews the evidence on gender gaps and on what causes these, including the role played by attitudes. The second part …
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The Barcelona targets on childcare help increase women's labour-market participation and close the gender employment … targets, this paper estimates the impact on labour par- ticipation of mothers of alternative scenarios of formal childcare … availability and usage) would lead to significant increases in the labour supply of mothers (at the extensive and intensive margins …
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This study examines the annual investment required for universal, collectively funded childcare and longterm care services, as well as adequate paid care leave and breastfeeding breaks to parents in 82 countries. Simulations of policy reforms show that extending paid leave and breastfeeding...
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productivity growth in the EU in the context of the Great Recession. We consider the crisis and recovery periods, evaluate the … relevance of both levels and changes in EPL for productivity growth, establish the presence of some nonlinearities, and explore … stricter labour protection reduces labour productivity growth in sectors with a large share of workers with tertiary education …
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Forty-five years ago, the first Regional Conference on the Integration of Women into the Economic and Social Development of Latin America was held (Havana, 1977), as an intergovernmental platform for the region following the World Conference of the International Women’s Year (Mexico City,...
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Concerns about widening inequality have increased attention on the topic of equality of opportunities and intergenerational mobility. We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to analyse how educational and income mobility has evolved in the United States of America. We show...
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