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Climate shocks, migration, and labor markets : a gender analysis from West Africa
El-Mallakh, Nelly; Wodon, Quentin - 2021
the labor division between women and men and show that shocks may disrupt long-standing gender roles. The results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648528
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Obstacles to labour market participation among Arab women in Israel
Miaari, Sami H.; Khattab, Nabil; Sabbah-Karkabi, Maha - 2020
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 … retirement of Arab women from the labour market. We find that all four of these factors affect the probability of Palestinian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262448
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The impact of affirmative action on the employment of minorities and women over three decades : 1973-2003
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana - 2015
analyzes this issue by comparing the employment of minorities and women at firms holding federal contracts and therefore … beneficiaries of affirmative action in federal contracting over 1973-2003 were black and Native American women and men. Analysis of … employment shares of minorities and women at federal contractors relative to noncontracting firms occurred during the 1970s and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488280
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The labor market situation of women in the Visegrad countries
Cukrowska-Torzewska, Ewa; Lovasz, Anna; Rigo, Mariann - 2020
The Visegrad 4 countries are characterized by low female and maternal employment rates compared to other Western and Nordic countries. Employment rates of mothers with children aged 0-2 years old are especially low, except in Poland. Work-family balance indicators and gender wage gaps are also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012439602
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Can the internet buy working hours of married women in micro and small enterprises? : evidence from Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Sulistyaningrum, Eny; Resosudarmo, Budy P.; Falentina, … - 2021
marketplaces. Married women, who typically reduce the time they allocate to work due to their responsibility to take care of their … women who are the owners or managers of MSEs and also the probability of working for them. We employ IV estimates, and use … working hours of married women. In addition, we find that married women in urban areas increase their working hours when they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518220
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The puzzling decline in rural women's labor force participation in India : a reexamination
Neff, Daniel; Sen, Kunal; Kling, Veronika - 2012
did this occur? We look at the four standard explanations: that more women in rural areas are now pursuing higher … there is a tendency for women to withdraw from the labor force to attend to domestic duties (income effect), that employment … opportunities for women are decreasing, and that social and cultural factors may be interacting with these three factors and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009538525
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Female labor force participation in five selected MENA countries : an age-period-cohort analysis (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia)
Lassassi, Moundir; Tansel, Aysıt - 2020
namely, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia. Low FLFP rates in these countries, as it is in other MENA countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012303654
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Female labor force participation in five selected Mena countries: an age-period-cohort analysis (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia)
Lassassi, Moundir; Tansel, Aysıt - 2020
namely, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia. Low FLFP rates in these countries, as it is in other MENA countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012305902
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Female labor force participation in five selected MENA countries : an age-period-cohort analysis : (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia)
Lassassi, Moundir; Tansel, Aysıt - 2020
namely, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia. Low FLFP rates in these countries, as it is in other MENA countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427915
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Comparing retrospective and panel data collection methods to assess labor market dynamics
Asʿad, Rāǧī; Krafft, Caroline; Yassin, Shaimaa - 2017
on basic indicators related to labor markets and their dynamics from retrospective and panel survey data in Egypt, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735902