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This paper discusses new methods of combined macro-micro analysis of labor demand and supply to investigate the gender … sophisticated methods of allocating people to jobs to model the impact of public investment in care on the gender employment gap and …
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-level modeling techniques, this paper explores the macro-level determinants of the gender poverty gap in the ten post …-socialist European Union member states. In dialogue with the literature on the impact of economic development on gender inequality in … Asia and Latin America, we find that fast-paced, foreign capital led economic growth is associated with a larger gender …
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identifies linkages between gender, economic development, and growth, however. This paper explores the macro effects of gender …, transmitted via the productive sector and in the household, in part due to the tendency for work - paid and unpaid - to be gender …-segregated. Macro-level policies in turn can have differential effects on men and women. Evidence that gender equality is itself a …
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Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that … empirical assessment of the relative importance of development and historical determinants of gender equality at the cross …-national level. To capture this long-term relationship, a new index of gender equality that stretches back to 1960 is introduced …
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The main purpose of this paper is to look at the incorporation of gender and the informal sector within a general … equilibrium framework for India. Moreover, we clarify some important links between a gender aware informal sector based social … special case the fixed price multiplier (FPM) models. In particular, economy wide modelling of gender and the informal sector …
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. We compare scenarios with different gender employment intensities in producing jatropha for biodiesel. Under all …. -- Biofuels ; gender ; poverty ; growth ; Africa …
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social policy trajectories in Mainland Tanzania with a gender lens, to better understand the contributions of these … advancements in the legal frameworks and increasingly gender-responsive government policy plans, Tanzanian social policy delivery …
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The Gender Kuznets Curve (GKC) hypothesis argues that economic development has a non-linear effect on the female share … conclude that gender equality is not a direct result of development, and therefore policy makers having a gender equalization …
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A kind of gender revolution is passing through various countries in various continents. By being offered free access to … assess the role of gender equity and uniquely women entrepreneurship in the process of socio-economic development. Implying a … set of variables, treated as proxies of gender equality and women entrepreneurship, we estimate their coherence with socio …
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This paper evaluates the impacts of increasing female representation in Bolivian municipal councils on public policy choices and welfare outcomes. By combining detailed administrative panel data on municipal expenditures and revenues together with electoral data, an innovative regression...
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