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Turkish economic growth has been characterized by periodic crises since financial liberalization reforms were enacted in the early 1990s. Given the phenomenally low female labor force participation rate in Turkey (one of the lowest in the world) and the limited scope of the country's...
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While women's labor force participation tends to increase with economic development, the relationship is not … participation by women than by men. This variation is driven by a wide variety of economic and social factors, which include … economic growth, education, and social norms. Looking more broadly at improving women's access to quality employment, a …
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. We argue in this paper that female labor force participation among educated women in four MENA countries - Algeria, Egypt …-participation) for married and unmarried women of a given educational and age profile. Our results confirm that the decline in the … probability of public sector employment for women with higher education is associated with either an increase in unemployment or a …
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Population Survey between 2002 and 2019. Specifically, we look at the change in labor market behavior of women when their child …
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force participation over the period, led by increases in women's education and shifts in the occupational structure of the …
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We provide causal evidence that children's school schedules contribute to the persistence of the gender pay gap between parents. Historically, French children have had no school on Wednesdays. In 2013, a reform reallocated some classes to Wednesday mornings. Exploiting variations in the...
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of time-use survey data from Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico shows that: (i) women make up 63% to 84% of long …-term family caregivers and account for 72% to 88% of total hours of LTC; (ii) consistently across countries, women who provide LTC … the number of hours worked among women ages 5064 who remain employed (by 7.03%). This finding has important implications …
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simply basing the analysis on a static association between women’s observed participation status and men’s observed … unemployment status in the survey period, we explore whether there is a dynamic relationship between transitions of women and men … shock on labor market transition probability for the overall sample as well as for different groups of women, and hence …
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Using longitudinal data for Argentina, this paper measures the labor supply reaction of different household members to a breadwinner’s job loss. Firm events and local unemployment shocks are exploited as exogenous sources of variation to estimate the causal effect. Our main findings show that...
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The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … large and comparable data sets or to conventional approaches that limit the possibilities to compare men and women. …
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