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Does economic globalization trigger de‐industrialization in Western Balkan countries? : empirical evidence based on augmented mean group estimator
Cengiz, Orhan; Manga, Müge - In: Regional science policy and practice : RSPP 16 (2024) 4, pp. 1-21
countries have also experienced deindustrialization without attaining a high economic level in the era of globalization. Since … for Western Balkan countries. Thus, our paper analyzes the impact of economic globalization on the deindustrialization …. Deindustrialization, which refers to declining industry share, is commonly observed in developed countries. However, many developing …
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Gender and comparative advantage : feminist-heterodox theorizing about globalization
Osterreich, Shaianne T. - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 2/35, pp. 1-12
Heterodox feminist scholars have argued that global trade patterns reflect patterns of competitive advantage-rather than comparative advantage-and that that competitive advantage is gendered. Further, they have suggested that we need more theoretical and empirical scholarship in this area. This...
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The employment effects of technology, trade, and consumption in global value chains : evidence for developing Asia
Bertulfo, Donald Jay; Gentile, Elisabetta; Vries, … - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 39 (2022) 2, pp. 1-44
Global value chains (GVCs) have been a vehicle for job creation in developing Asia, but technology can also displace … consumption, trade, and technological progress in 16 economies that accounted for about 95% of employment in developing Asia from …
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Female labor force participation in developing countries : improving employment outcomes for women takes more than raising labor market participation : good jobs are important too
Verick, Sher Singh - 2014
While women's labor force participation tends to increase with economic development, the relationship is not straightforward or consistent at the country level. There is considerably more variation across developing countries in labor force participation by women than by men. This variation is...
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Economic development and female labor participation in the Middle East and North Africa : a test of the U-shape hypothesis
Verme, Paolo - In: IZA journal of labor & development 4 (2015) 3, pp. 1-21
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is known for having low female labor market participation rates compared with its level of economic development. A possible explanation is that countries in this region do not follow a U-shape relation between female participation and GDP during the...
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Gender gaps in Spain : policies and outcomes over the last three decades
Guner, Nezih; Kaya, Ezgi; Sánchez Marcos, Virginia - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 5 (2014) 1, pp. 61-103
We document recent trends in gender equality in employment and wages in Spain. Despite an impressive decline in the gender gap in employment, females are still less likely to work than males: about 76 % of working age males and 63 % of working age females were employed in 2010. If females work...
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The Family 500+ benefit and changes in female employment in Poland
Bartosik, Krzysztof - In: Central European economic journal 10 (2023) 57, pp. 23-34
This paper investigates the relationship between the implementation of the Family 500+ benefit, changes in female employment and female economic inactivity. The analysis is based on macro data and is focused on the years 2016-2019. To examine the relationship, this study uses decomposition of...
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Not all that it seems : narrowing of gender gaps in employment during the onset of COVID-19 in Indonesia
Halim, Daniel; Hambali, Sean; Purnamasari, Ririn Salwa - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 40 (2023) 2, pp. 5-38
This paper studies the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on Indonesia's labor market, using the exogenous timing of the pandemic in a seasonal difference-in-differences framework. We use multiple rounds of Indonesia's National Labor Force Survey to establish a pre-pandemic employment trend and...
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The child penalty : evidence from Spain
Quinto, Alicia de; Hospido, Laura; Sanz, Carlos - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 12 (2021) 4, pp. 585-606
Using data from social security records and an event study approach, we estimate the child penalty in Spain, looking at disparities for women and men across different labor outcomes following the birth of the first child. Our findings show that, the year after the first child is born, mothers’...
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Labor market discrimination : are women still more secondary workers?
Rembeza, Jerzy; Radlińska, Kamila - In: Journal of business economics and management 22 (2021) 1, pp. 77-97
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 one of its symptoms. The paper’s main objective was to...
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