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indicators often targeted in women's empowerment programs, such as gender norms and female employment and education. These …
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This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women's economic opportunity and charts the evolution of legal inequalities over five decades. Using the World Bank's newly extended Women, Business and the Law database, the paper documents...
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relative to men. The paper does not find any significant effect of immigration on wages and employment, which indicates that …This paper assesses the impact of immigration to Western Europe on the exposure of native-born workers to economic and …, are more exposed to the negative income shocks relative to the natives. The paper then examines whether immigration has an …
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' employment, accounting for the complexity of measuring rural women's labor force participation, as well as data on social … issues to consider when examining rural women's employment in socioeconomic surveys, as well as a survey research agenda to …
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The relationship between the length of paid maternity leave and the proportion of female workers in the private sector is explored using firm-level survey data for 66 mostly developing countries. The paper finds a large, positive, and statistically significant relationship between the two....
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, and the concepts of housework and employment are taken as mutually exclusive. Second, given this duality between housework … and employment, women define "employment" based on a set of necessary characteristics that exclude many of their own …
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restrictions from discriminatory behaviors and female employment is particularly strong in the manufacturing sector …
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This study seeks to examine gender gaps and disability issues in education in Indonesia, and to suggest policy actions as well as future analytical and operational work to address these differences. Field visits were conducted to uncover drivers of gender differences, as well as issues of social...
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integration measures on gender employment and wages. The study incorporates gender-differentiated employment and wages for … only some countries signing the free trade agreement. Women's employment grows faster than men's employment, as most of the … sectors that benefit due to these free trade agreements are women intensive. Growth in women's employment and wages in South …
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Accurate estimates of men's and women's employment are at the heart of understanding sources of productivity and … analysis shows that, compared with the best practice of privately interviewing adults about their employment outcomes, the … significant underreporting of employment across a range of wage and self-employment activities, with stronger effects for women …
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