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Inequality in sub-Saharan Africa: A Review Paper
Very little attention has been paid to African inequality dynamics in high-profile international discussions of changing global inequality despite the fact that African dynamics will become increasingly important to the global inequality discussion. Within the continent, recent years have seen
Published in March 2021
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The Interplay between Women’s Earnings and the Income Distribution: A Cross-National Analysis of Latin American and Anglophone Countries
Since the 1980s, an inter-disciplinary literature drawing heavily from economics and sociology has addressed the interplay between women’s earnings and household income. We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database to address this relationship in five middle-income and five high
Published in June 2019
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The impact of crime shocks across gender and socioeconomic groups: a large-scale mapping of behavioral disruption
In recent decades the world has seen a simultaneous trend towards becoming more peaceful overall, but also towards higher homicide rates surging in focal regions in the developing world. Although abundant research exists on the nature and sociology of crime, few studies look into the damaging
Published in January 2021
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Persistence of inequality in access to water: A look at the actions of women in peri-urban territories of the city of El Alto
relatively affordable for the population with a low and unstable household income and the setting is characterized by persistent inequalities and gender roles which mainly affect the lives of migrant women. In this context, the most important issue people face is the lack of access to water services
Published in November 2020
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Youth inclusion in labour markets in Niger: Gender dynamics and livelihoods
This paper uses a mixed methods approach to identify factors that challenge and enable young adults’ inclusion in the world of work in Niger, through a gender-streamlined analysis of different poverty trajectories of livelihoods and how these are affected by training, education and migration. We
Published in May 2021
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International emigration and labour market outcomes of women staying behind: the case of Morocco
We tackle the issue of women's activity rates in Morocco by adopting a mixed method approach. Using the 2007 household survey, we find that having a migrant in the household increases women's labour participation, while receiving remittances decreases it. While migration increases women's
Published in May 2016
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The economic trigger: Enabling gendered social inclusion processes and outcomes amidst poverty escapes in Niger and Malawi
effects on the social inclusion of children. The paper examines the gendered intersection of these spheres and policies to promote social inclusion and consequently both social cohesion and sustained poverty reduction.
A key message of this study is that despite much higher levels of human development
Published in October 2019
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Gender inequalities in the platform economy: The cases of delivery and private passenger transport services in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area
which the platform economy constitutes a welcoming environment for female workers. Second, female versus male performance is assessed in terms of hours worked and earnings. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches it performs a gender gap analysis via linear regression. The
Published in March 2022
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Trends and Patterns of Women’s Entrepreneurship in Egypt
This paper conducts a detailed analysis of the trends and patterns of women’s role in household non-agricultural enterprises in Egypt. The paper uses the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS) waves of 1998, 2006, 2012 and 2018. First, the paper examines whether households have enterprises and
Published in February 2020
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Mental Health and Gender Inequality in the MENA Region: An Analysis of Shock Related Factors Within the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
(five-question module to measure mental health and well-being) and the ERF COVID-MENA Monitor Survey panel dataset. The results indicate a statistically significant difference in the mental health well-being between men and women, with women’s mental health being significantly poorer than that of
Published in May 2022
