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This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap … derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants' gender. Instrumental variable … estimates indicate that increasing gender equality in economic or political rights generally deepens the GMG, i.e., it reduces …
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During the first half of the twentieth century, many US states enacted laws restricting women's labor market … with male sole earners who compete with women for jobs. We show that the theory's predictions for when protective …
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gender norms on fertility and economic growth to explain the phenomena recently observed across high-income countries. To … this end, we construct an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility and labor supply, incorporating gender … norms and R&D activities. We demonstrate that conventional gender norms can impede fertility and economic growth …
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This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap … derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants' gender. Instrumental variable … estimates indicate that increasing gender equality in economic or political rights generally deepens the GMG, i.e., it reduces …
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may lead to higher promotion standards for women. If employers expect women to do more household work than men, thereby … exerting less effort in their paid job, then women must be more talented to make promotion profitable. Moreover, specialization … in the family will then result in women’s doing most of the household work. Such self-fulfilling prophecies can be …
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suggest that gender quotas are likely to lead to a shift in lawmaking and a greater prevalence of women's issues in Parliament …This article studies gender differences in lawmaking in a context of gender quotas. I use two empirical strategies to … randomize the gender of legislators and text analysis to identify the topics of the legislation in the French Parliament from …
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gender on global production have been developed, including (a) integrating gender relations into global value chain analysis …, and (c) conceptual and empirical work on the interplay between gender, social provisioning, informal work, and the … effects of persistent gender-based occupational segregation, which underpins all three strands of work. A lot of excellent …
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In this paper, we explore the links between polygyny and female labour supply in Senegal using a nationally representative survey. In a reduced-form approach, we first measure the impact of polygyny on participation using a joint model of spouse participation. The identification of the impact of...
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