women's led business and improve the business environment in order to stimulate private investment (private sector support … the willingness and ability of firms to hire women. These measures should actually address the weak capacity of the public … sector to create enough jobs to mitigate the severity of women's unemployment. …

We propose a first order bias correction term for the Gini index to reduce the bias due to grouping. The first order … correction term is obtained from studying the estimator of the Gini index within a measurement error framework. In addition, it … reveals an intuitive formula for the remaining second order bias which is useful in empirical analyses. We analyze the …