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This study examines how the 2008–2009 surges in international food and fuel prices and the coinciding global financial crisis impacted the Philippine labor market. Regression estimates using repeated quarterly waves of the Labor Force Survey indicate small declines in employment probabilities,...
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Purpose – Transforming gender research in accounting is possible, desirable, and promising: the past few decades have …/methodology/approach – By reviewing pioneering feminist research in various disciplines, the author opens the margins and boundaries of gender …. As there is no single story regarding gender, research exploring the unexplored has precedent in accounting literature …
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Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … examination of the effect of educational gender gap was negative on output. The results are found to be robust to a number of …
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Men are known to have a higher taste for competition than women. This paper presents an experiment that analyses the different determinants of the choice to enter a competition : beliefs and the competition level. As far as entry in the competition is concerned, low-performing subjects adapt...
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Purpose – This paper aims to be nested in the empirical literature examining the impact of gender quotas for elected … posts to local government councils (panchayats) in India. Gender quotas apply at the level of both head (sarpanch, randomly … the level of sarpanch, and find a statistically significant impact of the gender of the sarpanch on public expenditure …
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This research draws on a unique, large dataset of individuals in Croatia regarding their corruption experiences to analyze determinants of bribe payments. Taking account of economic, personal, social and geographic factors, results show that while greater competition for favors makes bribe...
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be critical to reverse this trend. A growing set of literature looks at gender disparity in access to critical inputs … contributes to the knowledge gap by compiling existing empirical evidence and investigating the gender gaps in access to resources …
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household's patterns in both countries by looking at cultural, income and employment factors allowing a gender comparisons of … live and dissimilarities by gender in the presence of different living arrangements and in the impact of the different …
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Established in 2008 and launched by the then Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, the National Muslim Women's Advisory Group (NMWAG) brought together 19 British Muslim women to advise Government on ways to empower Muslim women and increase their participation in civic, economic and social life. This...
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