This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap … derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants' gender. Instrumental variable … estimates indicate that increasing gender equality in economic or political rights generally deepens the GMG, i.e., it reduces …

This study investigates how ameliorating gender inclusion affects sustainable development in Africa over the period … 2000-2019 in 42 African countries. It argues that enhancing gender inclusion in all sectors of society promotes and sets a … better pace for the attainment of sustainable development in Africa. The gender inclusion variable used is the females …

inequality and institutional biases against women in trade partner countries play an important role in explaining gender …In this paper, we investigate whether gender norms and institutions act as a constraint to the performance of female … institutional biases against women from other constraints and hurdles that female businesses might face by exploiting detailed trade …

inequality and institutional biases against women in trade partner countries play an important role in explaining gender …In this paper, we investigate whether gender norms and institutions act as a constraint to the performance of female … institutional biases against women from other constraints and hurdles that female businesses might face by exploiting detailed trade …

gender inequalities. The technical obscurity remains how to interpret GII by combining women-specific indicators with … gender-based indices constructed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and suggests alternatives for choice of … variables, functional form, and weights. While the UNDP Gender Inequality Index (GII) conceptually reflects the loss in …

recent research on digitalisation, scant attention has however been paid to the gender impact of these changes. This article … addresses this gap by developing a gender perspective on digitalisation, considering how these developments interact with … existing social inequalities and gender segregation patterns in the labour market. We identify two broad areas in which …

This paper examines how culture impacts within-couple gender inequality. Exploiting the setting of Germany's division … and reunification, I compare child penalties of couples socialised in a more gender-egalitarian culture (East Germany) to … those in a gender-traditional culture (West Germany). Using a household panel, I show that the long-run child penalty on the …

This paper analyses the implication of contract farming on gender inequalities in rural Mozambique. Contract farming is … contracts' implications for gender equality, both across and within households. We look both at the participation of female …-headed households in contracts, and at the impact of establishing a contract on a set of intra-household women empowerment indicators …

Across countries, women and men allocate time differently between market work, domestic services, and care work. In … this paper, we document the gender division of work, drawing on a new harmonized data set that provides us with high … women plays a crucial role in generating the observed dispersion of outcomes, particularly for middle-income countries …

This paper examines how culture determines within-couple gender inequality. Exploiting the setting of Germany …'s division and reunification, I compare child penalties of couples socialised in a more gender-egalitarian culture to those in a … performed by women in West Germany and that women are responsible for a larger share of child care as those from the East. A …