This study investigates how enhancing gender inclusion affects inequality in 42 African countries for the period 2004-2014. The empirical evidence is based on the Generalized Method of Moments. Three inequality indicators are used, namely, the: Gini coefficient, Atkinson index, and Palma ratio....

Consider a model with two types of jobs. The profitability of promoting a worker to a fast-track job depends not only on his or her observable talent, but also on incontractible effort. We investigate whether self-fulfilling expectations may lead to higher promotion standards for women. If...

Ein vergleichender Überblick über die Arbeitsmarktsituation von Frauen und Männern in Europa.; Die dramatische Anhebung des Bildungsniveaus und der Erwerbsarbeit von Frauen sowie Quotierungen und gesetzliche Regelungen zur Gleichstellung von Männern und Frauen haben die Arbeitswelt in den...

Since women account for almost 50 percent of the world’s population, the sustainability of development of the global economy can be greatly impaired if the state authorities in individual countries pay less attention to the improvement in the socio-economic status of women relative to men....

Governmental interventions to promote gender equality – for example to encourage female participation in the formal economy and male engagement with the informal unpaid economy of care - are costly. However, there has been little examination in feminist analyses of policy reform of the...

The present paper is an attempt to analyze the status of gender inequality in North East India using various indicators based on secondary data. The study reveals that the northeast is better off than that of the nation as a whole in terms of gender equality. However inequality between women and...