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Economy 4.0: Employment effects by occupation, industry, and gender

Eder, Andreas; Koller, Wolfgang; Mahlberg, Bernhard - 2021

into account direct as well as indirect effects of the new technologies by industry, occupation and gender. These …

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Emran, M. Shahe; Morshed, A.K.M Mahbub; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2011

The existing theoretical analysis of microfinance focuses on the nature of the loan contract such as group liability. We draw attention to the role of missing or imperfect labor market in understanding some of the important `second generation' debates in microfinance. Our analysis helps explain...

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Pobreza e informalidad, ¿un dilema de causalidad reversa en la República Dominicana?

Rodríguez Núñez, Juan Bautista - 2022

This paper analyzes the reverse causality between poverty and labor informality in the Dominican Republic, generating a profile that encompasses the socioeconomic and demographic factors of individuals to both poverty and labor informality. To that end, the National Labor Force Survey (Encuesta...

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Gender Wage Gap in The Agricultural Labor Market of India: An Empirical Analysis

KUNDU, AMIT; DAS, SANGITA - 2018

The gender wage gap in the agricultural labor market is observed in all the states of India. This paper will try to … identify possible policies which can reduce this gender wise wage discrimination in agricultural labor market. We consider the … period between 2010-11 to 2015-16 and 18 major states of India. The possible factors which can create an impact on gender …

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Access to Formal Credit and Gender Income Gap: The Case of Farmers in Cambodia

SAM, Vichet - 2019

This article analyzes the factors that drive the gender income difference among farmers in Cambodia with a focus on the … gender earnings gap. Results from OLS regression show that individual education and health, farm size and other inputs … farmers’ income. Then, based on the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, most of gender earnings difference is due to the …

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Male Worker Migration and Women Empowerment: The case of Bihar, India

Singh, K.M.; Singh, R.K.P.; Kumar, Anjani - 2013

Migration of population has been a recurrent phenomenon since the dawn of human history. Though its form has changed but it remains a dominant event in the global social system. In modern days also people migrate from underdeveloped areas to the developed ones in search of better opportunities....

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Job satisfaction in the Republic of Macedonia: The role of gender and education

Zeqiri, Izet; Aziri, Brikend - 2010

relations with supervisors and satisfaction with relations with coworkers. Also the connection of gender and level of education …

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Perceived financial barriers and the start-up decision: An econometric analysis of gender differences using GEM data

Stephen, Roper; Jonathan M., Scott - 2009

Although accessing finance is key to the foundation of any business, particular concerns have been expressed about the ability of UK women-owned firms to obtain external finance. In this paper we use an econometric approach to explore the effect of perceptions of financial barriers to start-up...

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Impact of trade in services on gender employment in India

Banga, Rashmi; Bansal, Renu - 2009

trace its gender differential impacts. This study makes a pioneering attempt to estimate the impact of exports of services … on gender employment in 46 sectors, which include 15 services sectors. Social Accounting Matrix has been used to generate … gender employment multipliers and identify sectors where higher exports of services may lead to greater gender employment …

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An analysis of different approaches to women empowerment: a case study of Pakistan

Chaudhary, Amatul R.; Chani, Muhammad Irfan; Pervaiz, Zahid - 2012

’s overall development have positive and significant effect on women’s empowerment as measured by Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM …

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