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Community of West African States (ECOWAS), with particular focus on gender issue. First, we detect the induced changes in prices …
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This paper presents the advantages of taking into account the distribution of the individual wage gap when analysing female wage discrimination. The limitations of previous approaches such as the classic Oaxaca-Blinder and the recent distributive proposals using quantile regressions or...
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Equality of opportunity is a principle of justice that is built on two fundamental ideas. On the one hand, outcome differences across individuals are unacceptable if they are rooted in factors that are beyond individual control. Examples of such circumstance characteristics are the biological...
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different aspects of gender equality or female empowerment. Whereas the economics of income inequality has been an area of … active academic inquiry, the role of gender equality has largely been ignored. Are there positive spillovers from gender … government, lower fertility rates, and better overall gender equality experienced lower income inequality, ceteris paribus. These …
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institutionalization and homelessness, especially among men and as a result there are stark gender ratio imbalances among this population …. We speculate that this gender imbalance may play a role in excess female mortality in addition to several other …
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This work studies the impact of accounting for intrahousehold inequality in the distribution of resources for the measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources the study relies on collective Engel curves. For the poverty analysis, we propose a fuzzy...
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This study examines the interactions among poverty, access to modern energy sources and gender in Nigeria. Descriptive …
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This study investigates on Pakistani and South African data gender issues in household behavior.A test for gender bias …
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and 2004 may be explained by gender dynamics in the labour market. For this purpose, the authors use household surveys … deterioration of poverty, income distribution and gender labour income inequality. In addition, it is observed that poverty …
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the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
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