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Mobile money innovations, income inequality and gender inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa
This study assesses the role of mobile money innovations on income inequality and gender inclusion in 42 sub-Saharan African countries from 1980 to...
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Gender Inequality and Poverty: The Role of Financial Development in Mitigating Poverty in Pakistan
Poverty and gender inequality are among the major issues in develo** countries that can hinder their economic progress and human development....
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The impacts of Confucianism on gender inequality in Vietnam
We quantify the influences of Confucianism on gender inequality in present-day Vietnam. We use the number (or density) of the most successful test...
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Gender wage inequality: new evidence from penalized expectile regression
The Machado-Mata decomposition building on quantile regression has been extensively analyzed in the literature focusing on gender wage inequality. In...
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Gender inequality and the entrepreneurial gender gap: Evidence from 97 countries (2006–2017)
Although it seems almost a stylized fact that females are less likely than males to start new ventures, closing this gender gap is essential to...
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Inclusive Finance, Gender Inequality, and Sustainable Economic Growth in Africa
This study examined the effect of multidimensional inclusive finance index and other financial indicators on gender inequality in 41 countries in...
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Child care costs, household liquidity constraints, and gender inequality
In a model with endogenous female labour supply and wages, we show that liquidity constraints that prevent households from buying child care generate...
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Gender inequality in a transition economy: heights and sexual height dimorphism in Southwestern France, 1640–1850
The secular trend in average female and male adult height can reveal sex-specific patterns in resource allocation as final heights, to a large...
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Economic growth, gender inequality, openness of trade, and female labour force participation: a nonlinear ARDL approach
This study examines the dynamic association between economic growth, gender inequality, trade openness, and labour force participation in Malaysia...
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Gender Inequality Under Laissez-Faire Covid-19: Case of Belarus
Despite its traditional paternalistic role, the Belarusian government’s policy response to the Covid-19 pandemic was minimal. Schools and childcare...
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The Gender Inequality Index Through the Prism of Social Innovation
Gender equality is a central issue of the global agenda. Initially included as one of the main goals of the Millennium Development Summit in 2000 and...
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Gender and Income Inequality
In this chapter, gender is identified as a hidden dimension in the current debate about and analysis of economic inequality. When it comes to...
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COVID-19 and (gender) inequality in income: the impact of discretionary policy measures in Austria
This paper analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on household income in Austria, using detailed administrative labor market data, in combination...
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Whither inequality?
This article reviews the overarching phenomenon of inequality presented in three prominent books: Jon D. Wisman’s The Origins and Dynamics of...
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Rank-correlations are not robust to differences in group inequality
Rank-based measures of intergenerational mobility are generally justified by their invariance to changes in inequality. However, I show that whenever...
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Evolution of Inequality in Nigeria: a Tale of Falling Inequality, Rising Poverty, and Regional Heterogeneity
Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only the upper class has benefited...
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Inequality of Opportunity in Changing Access to Employment in India: A Panel Study
Labour market segmentation on the lines of caste, religion, gender, and parental characteristics is well documented in the literature. Evidence...
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Gender Inequality in Labour Market and Public Policies: A General Equilibrium Approach
Empowering women by making them participate in the labour force is one of the significant components of achieving sustainable development. In...
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Inequality and Inefficiency
In this chapter, we consider several reasons why inequality can have serious inefficiency consequences even from the narrow point of view of...
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Inequality of opportunity in access to and consumption of modern energy in Togo: A parametric approach
The transformation towards cleaner energy consumption in Togo is progressing at a slow pace due to a combination of unfavourable socioeconomic,...