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gender wage gap, decisions to invest in skills, the composition of employment and unemployment, and long-run growth. The … analysis uses a gender-based overlapping generations model with labor market rigidities. Gender bias in the workplace varies … aimed at mitigating gender bias in the workplace can promote growth and be significantly magnified through a stronger …
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Several economies have laws that treat women differently from men. This study explores the degree of such legal gender … disparities across 167 economies around the world. This is achieved by constructing a simple measure of legal gender disparities … to evaluate how countries perform. The average number of overall legal gender disparities across 167 economies is 17 …
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This paper studies gender education gaps among indigenous and nonindigenous groups in Bolivia. Using the National … the intersection of gender and indigenous identity confers cumulative disadvantage for indigenous women in literacy, years … of schooling, and primary and secondary school completion. Although gender education gaps have become narrower across …
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the second generation -- women's daughters and sons. Additionally, gender gaps in property ownership induce allocative … over property. Gender gaps are smaller if joint ownership is taken into consideration, but still materially disadvantage … paper is an important step toward a better understanding of gender gaps in property ownership in Africa and outlines an …
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Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses … data on young workers in their early years in the labor market to understand how gender wage gaps evolve over time, if at … new labor market entrants begin with little or no gender differences in earnings, but a wage gap gradually emerges over …
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schooling and skills differ between men and women and how those differences relate to gender gaps in earnings across nine middle …
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There is growing recognition that access to good jobs is an important driver of social cohesion. While economic dimensions of labor market outcomes are relatively well documented, evidence on the link between social cohesion and jobs is still surprisingly scarce. This paper, based on an earlier...
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reflects changes in perceived satisfaction with living standards and the ability to have a purposeful and meaningful life …
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This article examines how economic shocks affect individual well-being in developing countries. Using the case of a sudden and unanticipated currency devaluation in Botswana as a quasi-experiment, the article examines how this monetary shock affects individuals' evaluations of well-being. This...
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relevant to socio-political outcomes: the harder the impact, the lower the life satisfaction level and the more negative the …
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