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Determinants of female entrepreneurship in India
Daymard, Arnaud - 2015
This paper examines the nature and determinants of female entrepreneurship in India based on survey data. The first … part assesses basic characteristics of female entrepreneurship in India, while the subsequent sections analyse key … determinants of female entrepreneurship based on the literature, and test their importance at the state level in India with the …
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Determinants of the low female labour force participation in India
Sorsa, Piritta; Mareš, Jan; Didier, Mathilde; … - 2015
The low and declining female labour force participation rate in India despite strong growth over the past decade is … inclusive growth, and wellbeing. Assessing determinants of the labour force participation of women in India can open important … policy insights. This paper first describes key employment trends in India by gender. Then the potential determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399304
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Fighting gender inequality in Sweden
André, Christophe; Bourrousse, Hugo - 2017
Sweden ranks among the best OECD countries in terms of gender equality. Women have a high employment rate, outperform men in education and are well represented in government and parliament. Nevertheless, without further policy measures, achieving parity is still a distant prospect in several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700409
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Measuring women's economic empowerment : time use data and gender inequality
Ferrant, Gaëlle; Thim, Annelise - 2019
Empowerment, co-ordinated jointly by the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate, the Development Centre and Statistics Directorate. The initiative aims to identify policy and programme solutions to promote women’s economic empowerment by recognising, reducing and redistributing women’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060837
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How self-sorting affects migrants’ labour market outcomes
Pareliussen, Jon Kristian - 2017
Assuming that immigrants select destinations according to absolute returns to their observable and unobservable human capital, I present a human capital model of migration accounting for taxes, transfers and limited portability of skills. The model predicts both segmented sorting of migrants to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011823625
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Making the most of immigration in Canada
Carey, David - 2018
Canada’s immigration policy aims to promote economic development by selecting immigrants with high levels of human capital, to reunite families and to respond to foreign crises and offer protection to endangered people. Economic-class immigrants, who are selected for their skills, are by far...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011995769
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Improving well-being in New Zealand through migration
Carey, David - 2019
New Zealand’s immigration system aims to enhance well-being by promoting economic development, reuniting families and meeting humanitarian objectives. Immigration is high and residence admissions are focused on the high skilled to enhance economic outcomes. Empirical evidence suggests that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111106
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Skills and labour market performance in Sweden
Bussi, Margherita; Pareliussen, Jon K. - 2015
Both educational attainment and skills, as measured in the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), are high in Sweden. They are not perfect substitutes, but both are to some degree necessary for successfully integrating in the Swedish labour market. This paper describes the distribution of...
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Raising the economic participation of women in India : a new growth engine?
Sorsa, Piritta - 2015
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Gender equality and economic growth in India : a quantitative framework
Agénor, Pierre-Richard; Mareš, Jan; Sorsa, Piritta - 2015
and promote economic growth in India. The first part provides a brief review of gender issues in the country. The second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399697