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An action plan to emplement World Bank's strategies.
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pervasive gender bias, which means that many of the impacts of greater female mortality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa are … ignored. Gender-aware modeling is crucial to improving assessment of the aggregate impact of the pandemic both in sub …
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The article analyses the question whether women and men differ in their tastes for location factors. The question is …. However, the regressions confirm gender differences in terms of intensity, particularly regarding regional wage levels and the …
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reflections on a unique experiment in teaching economics to nonmajors. By the incorporation of selected topics of gender economics … into the interdisciplinary course about the changing economic statuses of women throughout history, the students are …
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Labor, and the Federal Communications Commission was a landmark victory for women and minority men seeking well-paid jobs in …
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In this paper we analyze changes in gender wage differentials in Spain between 1995 and 2002, with special attention to … differential, mainly driven by an increasing percentage of women holding a college degree. However, there is a persistent, if not … especially important among high paid women without college degree. This fact contributed to reinforce the well known “glass …
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The first ever gender-specific analysis of income and tax distribution in Germany has been implemented using the most … recently available data on personal income tax statistics from 2007. According to its findings, the average income of women is … average personal income tax burden for women is lower than that of men. In the lower and middle income groups, however, the …
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This paper explores the effects of husbands' commuting time on their wives' labour market participation and on family time allocation. We develop a unitary family model of labour supply, which includes commuting times and household production. In a pure leisure model longer commuting time for...
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We examine how far fertility trends respond to family policies in OECD countries. In the light of the recent fertility rebound observed in several OECD countries, we empirically test the impact of different family policy settings on fertility, using data from 18 OECD countries that spans the...
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disappears for three out of four performance variables. The only exception is sales. No gender difference is found for …
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