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Does mainstreamed aid advance gender parity? : insights from empirical evidence

Tadesse, Bedassa; Shukralla, Elias Kedir; Fayissa, Bichaka - In: Economies : open access journal 12 (2024) 8, pp. 1-27

This study investigates the effectiveness of gender-mainstreamed aid in mitigating gender inequality. We develop a … robust theoretical model that accounts for the potential positive and perceived negative effects of shifts toward gender … parity, capturing diverse societal perspectives. Utilizing a comprehensive dataset on aid activities focused on gender (in …

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The impact of student aid eligibility on higher education applications

Remigereau, Camille; Schäper, Clara - 2024

eligibility did not have a uniform effect on students' applications but varied by gender and academic performance. Highperforming …

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The impact of student aid eligibility on higher education applications

Remigereau, Camille; Schäper, Clara - 2024

application decisions for all students, but it impacted students differently based on gender and academic performance. High …

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Laws, aid, and change : the effect of gender-mainstreamed aid on legal provisions shaping women's economic opportunities

Tadesse, Bedassa; Shukralla, Elias Kedir; Fayissa, Bichaka - In: Economies : open access journal 13 (2025) 2, pp. 1-26

This study examines the relationship between gender-related aid and legal frameworks governing women's economic … opportunities. Using data from 116 countries (2009-2022), we analyze how significant (SGRA) and principal (PGRA) gender-related aid … and entrepreneurship measures. These observations underscore the complexity of addressing gender inequality and the …

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COVID-19: a crisis of the female self-employed

Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; Seebauer, Johannes - 2020

We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the governmentmandated measures to contain its spread, affected the self-employed relative to employed individuals in Germany and, secondly, to what extent the female self-employed were more strongly hit than their male...

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COVID-19 : a crisis of female self-employed

Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; Seebauer, Johannes - 2020

We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the government-mandated measures to contain its spread, affected the self-employed relative to employed individuals in Germany and, secondly, to what extent the female self-employed were more strongly hit than their male...

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The long-run effects of California's Paid Family Leave Act on women's careers and childbearing : new evidence from a regression discontinuity design and U.S. tax data

Bailey, Martha J.; Byker, Tanya; Patel, Elena; Ramnath, … - 2024

encouraged childbearing, suggesting that CPFL had little effect on the gender pay gap or child penalty. For first-time mothers …

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Politics and gender in the executive suite

Cohen, Alma; Hazan, Moshe; Weiss, David - 2020

examine whether CEO political preferences are associated with gender diversity in the boardroom and find no such association …. This lack of association is consistent with CEOs' preferences having less influence over gender diversity in the boardroom … than over that of executives reporting to the CEO. Finally, examining the gender gaps in the level and performance …

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COVID-19 : a crisis of the female self-employed

Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; Seebauer, Johannes - 2021

% more likely to experience income losses than their male counterparts. Conversely, we do not find a comparable gender gap … among employees. Our results further suggest that the gender gap among the self-employed is largely explained by the fact …

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Did the minimum wage reduce the gender wage gap in Germany?

Caliendo, Marco; Wittbrodt, Linda - 2021

particularly. Following this notion, we analyse the impact of the German minimum wage introduction in 2015 on the gender wage gap …. Germany poses an interesting case study in this context, since it has a rather high gender wage gap and set the minimum wage … minimum wage on the regional gender wage gap. Between 2014 and 2018, the gap at the 10th percentile of the wage distribution …

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