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This paper provides the first systematic analysis of the reasons why women endure longer unemployment durations than men in post-restructuring urban China. This analysis is based upon data obtained from a national representative household survey. Rejecting the view that women are less earnest...
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series stationary or at best mean-reverting. -- Labour Force Participation Rates ; Gender ; Fractional Integration …
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series stationary or at best mean-reverting. -- Labour Force Participation Rates ; Gender ; Fractional Integration …
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National Insurance Institute. The paper focuses on gender differences in work history patterns and, within each gender …'s labor market attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater …
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We compare the importance of occupational gender segregation for the gender wage gap in East and West Germany in 1995 … of occupational segregation, has a gender wage gap on the order of one fifth of the West German gap. Segregation is not …
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Gender gaps in labour force participation in developing countries persist despite income growth or structural change … across the rural-urban gradient. The gender gap increases with connectivity from rural to peri-urban areas, and disappears in … improves their access to off-farm employment. The gender gap persists for married young women independent of connectivity …
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In this paper we discuss some strands of the recent literature on the evolution of gender gaps and their driving forces …. We will revisit key stylized facts about gender gaps in employment and wages in a few high-income countries. We then … discuss and build on one gender-neutral force behind the rise in female employment, namely the rise of the service economy …
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unemployment rates. But scant, if any, evidence exists on gender gaps in economic outcomes such as income, expenditure, savings …, and job loss in a multi-country setting. We investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on gender inequality in these outcomes … industries for men and women may take an important part in explaining these gender gaps. Our estimates also point to country …
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This paper analyzes the effect of selection on ability on the evolution of the gender wage gap during the first years ….6 percentage point higher than their high-ability female counterparts. This contributed to the increase in the conditional gender … conditional gender wage gap between ages 21 and 36. …
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In this paper we provide first systematic evidence on the gender disparities in the labor market in Swaziland, drawing …
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