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Do religious women work less because they want to? To address this question, we consider whether the gender employment …
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that labour supply elasticities are close to zero. The only exception is women’s negative cross-wage elasticity, which … demonstrates that women react more strongly to their partner’s wage than their own. Most importantly, this study shows that gender … role attitudes influence labour supply decisions in two ways. First, women’s and their partner’s attitudes are taste …
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Fintech, which delivers financial services digitally, promises to promote financial inclusion and close the gender gap. Using a novel fintech dataset for 114 economies worldwide, this paper shows that fintech adoption significantly improves female employment and reduces gender inequality, the...
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in developing economies can signal their wealth, and thereby increase their social status, by withdrawing their women …
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This paper provides an overview of what has happened over the past fifty years for women as they worked to break … through professional barriers in economics, policy, and institutional leadership. We chart the progress of women in higher … education at the college level and beyond and then go on to examine women's representation at the upper levels of academia …
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The cohorts of women born at the turn of the 20th century increased markedly their participation in the labor market … between their work behavior and the Great Depression. We show that the 1929 Crash attracted young women 15 to 34 years old in …
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Two interesting facts emerge from the Palestinian labor market. Educational attainment for women swiftly expanded … during the 1999-2011 period, but the labor force-participation rate (LFPR) for educated women stagnated …—and disproportionately so for young educated women. We investigated whether changes in labor demand contributed to women's sluggish labor …
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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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Survey between 2002-2019. Specifically we look at the change inlabor market behavior of women when their child becomes age …
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