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Public Policy Brief No. 128
April 20, 2013
Από τα δίχτυα ασφαλείας στην οικονομική ενδυνάμωση
AbstractΤα προγράμματα κοινωνικής προστασίας περιλαμβάνουν δημόσιες πολιτικές που είναι σχεδιασμένες για να εμποδίσουν ή να απαλείψουν την ανασφάλεια και τη φτώχεια. Σε όλο τον αναπτυσσόμενο κόσμο, οι στρατηγικές κοινωνικής προστασίας και ο διάλογος γύρω από αυτές εξελίσσονται ραγδαία. Στο παρόν κείμενο πολιτικής, η Ράνια Αντωνοπούλου, Senior Scholar και διευθύντρια του προγράμματος για την ισότητα των […]
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Public Policy Brief No. 128
April 20, 2013
From Safety Nets to Economic Empowerment
AbstractSocial protection systems comprise public policies designed to prevent or alleviate economic insecurity and poverty. Throughout the developing world, social protection strategies and the dialogue surrounding them have recently been undergoing an important evolution. In this policy brief, Senior Scholar and Director of the Gender Equality and the Economy program Rania Antonopoulos highlights the opportunities […]
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Working Paper No. 757
March 11, 2013
Expanding Social Protection in Developing Countries
AbstractThis paper discusses social protection initiatives in the context of developing countries and explores the opportunities they present for promoting a gender-equality agenda and women’s empowerment. The paper begins with a brief introduction on the emergence of social protection (SP) and how it is linked to economic and social policy. Next, it reviews the context, […]
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Working Paper No. 756
February 14, 2013
Long-Term Benefits from Temporary Migration
AbstractUtilizing a nationally representative sample of households from Sri Lanka, this study examines gender differences in the long-term impact of temporary labor migration. We use a propensity score matching (PSM) framework to compare households with return migrants, households with current migrants, and equivalent nonmigrant households in terms of a variety of outcomes. Our results show […]
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Public Policy Brief No. 126
November 06, 2012
It's About "Time"
AbstractWe cannot adequately assess how much or how little progress we have made in addressing the condition of the most vulnerable in our societies, or provide accurate guidance to policymakers intent on improving each individual’s and household’s ability to reach a basic standard of living, if we do not have a reliable means of measuring […]
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Public Policy Brief No. 126
November 06, 2012
Εργασία, οικιακή παραγωγή και χρονικές απαιτήσεις
AbstractΔεν μπορούμε να εκτιμήσουμε επαρκώς πόση πολύ ή πόση λίγη πρόοδος έχει γίνει για την αντιμετώπιση της κατάστασης των πιο ευάλωτων στις κοινωνίες μας, ή να παρέχουμε σωστή καθοδήγηση στους χαράκτες πολιτικής που στοχεύουν στη βελτίωση των ικανοτήτων του κάθε ατόμου και νοικοκυριού να επιτύχει ένα βασικό βιοτικό επίπεδο, αν δεν διαθέτουμε ένα αξιόπιστο μέσο […]
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One-Pager No. 34
October 04, 2012
Αποκαλύπτοντας τους αόρατους φτωχούς
AbstractΤα τυπικά πρότυπα για τη μέτρηση της φτώχειας υποθέτουν ότι όλα τα νοικοκυριά και τα άτομα διαθέτουν αρκετό χρόνο για να ασχοληθούν επαρκώς με τις ανάγκες των μελών του νοικοκυριού (μαγείρεμα, καθάρισμα, φροντίδα των παιδιών, κοκ), καθήκοντα που είναι απολύτως αναγκαία για την επίτευξη ενός ελάχιστου βιοτικού επιπέδου. Αλλά αυτή η υπόθεση είναι ψευδής. Με […]
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One-Pager No. 34
October 04, 2012
Uncovering the Hidden Poor
AbstractStandard poverty measurements assume that all households and individuals have enough time to engage in the unpaid cooking, cleaning, and caregiving that are essential to attaining a bare-bones standard of living. But this assumption is false. With the support of the United Nations Development Programme and the International Labour Organization, Senior Scholars Rania Antonopoulos and […]
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Working Paper No. 732
September 26, 2012
Beyond Full Employment
AbstractOver the past decade and a half the ability of the employer-of-last-resort (ELR) proposal to deliver full employment and price stability has been discussed at length in the literature. A different issue has received relatively little attention—namely, the concern that even when the ELR produces these macroeconomic benefits, it does so by offering “low-paying” “dead-end” […]
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Working Paper No. 732
September 26, 2012
Πέρα από την πλήρη απασχόληση
AbstractΤα τελευταία δεκαπέντε χρόνια, η δυνατότητα της πρότασης του εργοδότη της έσχατης προσφυγής να επιτύχει πλήρη απασχόληση και σταθερότητα τιμών έχει συζητηθεί εκτενώς στη βιβλιογραφία. Η ανησυχία, ωστόσο, για το εάν ο εργοδότης της έσχατης προσφυγής παράγει μακροοικονομικά οφέλη αλλά με την προσφορά χαμηλόμισθων θέσεων εργασίας που δεν οδηγούν πουθενά και οι οποίες αποτελούν περαιτέρω […]
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Research Project Report
August 16, 2012
Why Time Deficits Matter
AbstractCustomarily, income poverty incidence is judged by the ability of individuals and households to gain access to some level of minimum income based on the premise that such access ensures the fulfillment of basic material needs. However, this approach neglects to take into account the necessary (unpaid) household production requirements without which basic needs cannot […]
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Working Paper No. 726
June 11, 2012
Time Use of Mothers and Fathers in Hard Times
AbstractThe recession precipitated by the US financial crisis of 2007 accelerated the convergence of women’s and men’s employment rates, as men experienced disproportionate job losses and women’s entry into the labor force gathered pace. Using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) data for 2003–10, this study examines whether the recession also occasioned a decline in […]
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Working Paper No. 705
February 03, 2012
What Do Poor Women Want? Public Employment or Cash Transfers?
AbstractThe literature on public employment policies such as the job guarantee (JG) and the employer of last resort (ELR) often emphasizes their macroeconomic stabilization effects. But carefully designed and implemented policies like these can also have profound social transformative effects. In particular, they can help address enduring economic problems such as poverty and gender disparity. […]
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Working Paper No. 701
December 23, 2011
Women, Schooling, and Marriage in Rural Philippines
AbstractUsing data from the Bicol region of the Philippines, we examine why women are more educated than men in a rural, agricultural economy in which women are significantly less likely than men to participate in the labor market. We hypothesize that educational homogamy in the marriage market and cross-productivity effects in the household allow Filipino […]
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Working Paper No. 696
November 07, 2011
Time Use of Mothers and Fathers in Hard Times and Better Times
AbstractThe US economic crisis and recession of 2007–09 accelerated the convergence of women’s and men’s employment rates as men experienced disproportionate job losses and women’s entry into the labor force gathered pace. Using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) data for 2003–10, this study examines whether the narrowing gap in paid work over this period […]
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Working Paper No. 690
October 05, 2011
The Measurement of Time and Income Poverty
AbstractOfficial poverty thresholds are based on the implicit assumption that the household with poverty-level income possesses sufficient time for household production to enable it to reproduce itself as a unit. Several authors have questioned the validity of the assumption and explored alternative methods to account for time deficits in the measurement of poverty. I critically […]
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Working Paper No. 686
September 21, 2011
Estimating the Impact of the Recent Economic Crisis on Work Time in Turkey
AbstractThis paper provides estimates of the impact of the recent economic crisis on paid and unpaid work time in Turkey. The data used in this study come from the first and only time-use survey available at the national level. Infrequency of collection of time-use data in Turkey does not allow us to make a direct […]
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One-Pager No. 11
August 05, 2011
Investing in Social Care Delivery
AbstractThere is little mystery to explaining our current high levels of unemployment. The Bureau of Economic Analysis recently revised its figures on GDP growth, and revealed that not only was the recession worse than we realized, but recent growth rates have been overstated as well. The hole, in other words, was deeper than we thought, […]
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Working Paper No. 671
May 19, 2011
Public Job-creation Programs: The Economic Benefits of Investing in Social Care
AbstractThis paper demonstrates the strong impacts that public job creation in social care provisioning has on employment creation. Furthermore, it shows that mobilizing underutilized domestic labor resources and targeting them to bridge gaps in community-based services yield strong pro-poor income growth patterns that extend throughout the economy. Social care provision also contributes to promoting gender […]
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Working Paper No. 621
September 25, 2010
Gendered Aspects of Globalization
AbstractWe need to go beyond the accepted notions relating to the role of women in the economy and society, especially in terms of what is recognized in mainstream theory and policy as “work” done by women. Thus, the traditional gender roles, with the man as the breadwinner and the woman in the role of housekeeper, […]
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Working Paper No. 598
May 17, 2010
The Economic and Financial Crises in CEE and CIS
AbstractThis paper looks at the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), where economies have been most dramatically hit by the global crisis and its impact is likely to be most long-lasting, especially among poor and vulnerable groups. Using poverty as the main axis, it looks at aspects […]
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Working Paper No. 590
March 10, 2010
Determining Gender Equity in Fiscal Federalism: Analytical Issues and Empirical Evidence from India
AbstractDespite the policy realm’s growing recognition of fiscal devolution in gender development, there have been relatively few attempts to translate gender commitments into fiscal commitments. This paper aims to engage in this significant debate, focusing on the plausibility of incorporating gender into financial devolution, with the Thirteenth Finance Commission of India as backdrop. Given the […]
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Working Paper No. 577
September 21, 2009
Explaining the Gender Wage Gap in Georgia
AbstractThis paper evaluates gender wage differentials in Georgia between 2000 and 2004. Using ordinary least squares, we find that the gender wage gap in Georgia is substantially higher than in other transition countries. Correcting for sample selection bias using the Heckman approach further increases the gender wage gap. The Blinder Oaxaca decomposition results suggest that […]
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Working Paper No. 572
August 13, 2009
The Unequal Burden of Poverty on Time Use
AbstractThis study uses the first time-use survey carried out in South Africa (2000) to examine women’s and men’s time use, with a focus on the impacts of income poverty. We empirically explore the determinants of time spent on different paid and unpaid work activities, including a variety of household and individual characteristics, using bivariate and […]
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