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The impacts of COVID-19 on female labor force participation in Iran

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad; Minh Do - 2024

While female labor force participation (LFP) in Iran is among the lowest in the world, there is hardly any study on the COVID-19 pandemic effects on the country's female LFP. We find that female LFP decreased during the pandemic years by around 1 percentage point in 2021 and 2022. When...

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The impacts of COVID-19 on female labor force participation in Iran

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad; Minh Do - 2024

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COVID-19 Pandemic and the Health and Well-being of Vulnerable People in Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Minh Do - 2022

pandemic reduced household income, increased the poverty rate, and worsened wage equality. It increased the proportion of below …

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"A Flop or a Success?" An Evaluation of the Welfare Impacts of the 6-3-3-4 Education System in Nigeria

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2015

poverty likelihood and poverty gap, an increase in the probability of employment and an increase in wages. Our results provide …

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Religious terrorism, forced migration, and women's empowerment: Evidence from the Boko Haram insurgency

Elice, Paola; Martínez Flores, Fernanda; Reichert, Arndt R. - 2023

We examine the link between violent attacks of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, forced migration, and the empowerment of women in host communities. We find positive effects of distant attacks on the economic well-being of women, their use of modern contraceptive methods, and rejection of...

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Push or pull? : drivers of female labor force participation during India's economic boom

Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - 2012

, showing a much more nuanced picture of female labor force participation than one might expect. Recent trends in employment and … factors drawing women into the labor force at attractive employment and pay conditions. This affects, by 2004, only a small …

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Creating Good Employment Opportunities for the Rural Sector

Foster, Andrew D. - 2013

infrastructure to contribute to the development of stable, well-paid employment in rural areas of low-income countries. Particular …

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Does Mother Tongue Make for Women's Work? Linguistics, Household Labor, and Gender Identity

Hicks, Daniel L. - 2019

This paper studies the formation and transmission of gender identity in a sample of U.S. immigrants. We document that households with individuals whose native language emphasizes gender in its grammatical structure are significantly more likely to allocate household tasks on the basis of sex and...

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Female Labour Force Participation in Indonesia : Why Has it Stalled

Cameron, Lisa A. - 2018

This paper examines the drivers of female labour force participation in Indonesia and disentangles the factors that have contributed to it remaining largely unchanged for two decades at around 51%. Data from the National Socioeconomic Survey (Susenas) and the Village Potential Statistics (Podes)...

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Employment Risk and Job-Seeker Performance

Godlonton, Susan - 2014

mechanism through which exposure to high employment risk can perpetuate poverty and unemployment … paper examines the relationship between employment risk and job-seeker performance. To induce exogenous variation in … employment risk, the outside options for job seekers undergoing a real recruitment process were randomized by assigning them a 0 …

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