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focuses on the gender composition of the workforce, female and male workers? employment conditions and gender wage inequality …-educated workforce with technical skills. In light of these perspectives, gender gaps in education and, on average, women?s weaker labour …
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Using the Malmquist productivity index and panel data methods, we study the role of total human capital and its composition in the technological "catch-up" process and productivity growth via the channels of innovation and adoption of technology in a panel of 19 sub -Saharan African countries...
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Sub-Saharan Africa has been characterised by low-income levels for decades. This paper analyses the impact of economic globalisation and democracy on income in sub-Saharan Africa using panel cointegration techniques. The paper considers a composite indicator for economic globalisation and...
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This article investigates women's returns to schooling by exploiting Burundi's free primary education policy (FPE) of 2005 as a natural experiment. Credibly exogenous variation in education is identified through a fuzzy regression discontinuity design (RDD). Our results show that while...
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This paper examines the role of ethnic-based gender norms in explaining the occurrence and intensity of sexual violence … economic, family, and societal arrangements, we construct and validate an ethnic-based gender inequality index. We control for … a large set of fixed effects and find empirical support for two interrelated hypotheses. First, gender-unequal armed …
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Despite a long-standing controversy about aid-effectiveness in general and the impact of aid-dependency on governance in particular, little is known on the effect of donors policies on civic agency for democratization in aid dependent autocratic regimes. In this study it is argued that the...
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has traditionally been a male domain, higher income from this activity might increase gender disparities. In addition …, gender-related inefficiency in household production might undermine the positive impact of improved incentives. Using data …
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Over the 40 years the pattern of migration has changed significantly with an increase in the share of female migrants, and especially low skill female migrants. These low skilled women migrants often work in the domestic service sector, a close substitute for household work. This paper analyzes...
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financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …
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territorial differences in a) the educational level of white women, b) the gender-race composition of the labor force, c) the …
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