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stagnant in transition economies. Admittedly, employment equality among genders was initially much higher in transition …Women in developed economies have experienced an unparalleled increase in employment rates, to the point that the gap … positions more frequently occupied by women, improved educational attainment). Meanwhile, the gender employment gaps were …
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stagnant in transition economies. Admittedly, employment equality among genders was initially much higher in transition …Women in developed economies have experienced an unparalleled increase in employment rates, to the point that the gap … positions more frequently occupied by women, improved educational attainment). Meanwhile, the gender employment gaps were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880503
The study has contributed to the extant literature on the relevance of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) by assessing how financial development dynamics can moderate the incidence of African trade integration on female labour force participation. The focus is on 47 African...
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-linear effects on employment of raising the minimum wage, in particular that marginal disemployment effects become larger when the …-linear disemployment effects are much more apparent for countries with strict Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) and/or with a high …
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This paper uses the task-content-of-occupations framework to analyze trends in employment and wages of female and male …: nonroutine cognitive, routine cognitive, nonroutine manual, and routine manual. Decomposing the changes in employment shares into … between-industry changes and within-industry changes across occupational categories reveals that within-industry employment …
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inequality, we examine if trial employment affects initial salaries by providing employers a first-hand look at candidates prior … discount dissipates when offers are received from employers where trial employment takes place …
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large gender disparities in employment rates, where having daughters also depresses the demand for formal care. In contrast … amidst the rise of female employment. …
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Employment and participation rates for US prime age women rose steadily during the second half of the 20th century. In … the last 30 years, however, those rates stagnated, even as employment and participation rates for women in other … barriers, such as limited investment in family policies, that may be holding back employment among American women today. The …
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employment. Family policies that subsidize childcare and increase its availability have different effects on female labor supply … may depend on countryspecific pre-reform female employment and earnings, and childcare availability, costs, and quality. …
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We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has fallen since 1981. Previous research has found divergent results across techniques, identification strategies, data sets, and time periods. Using Michigan Panel Study of Income...
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