Does Mandating Nondiscrimination in Hiring Practices Influence Women's Employment? Evidence Using Firm-level Data
This study explores the relationship between mandating a nondiscrimination clause in hiring practices along gender lines and the employment of women versus men in 58 developing countries. The study finds a strong positive relationship between a non...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank Group, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/10/20331207/mandating-nondiscrimination-hiring-practices-influence-womens-employment-evidence-using-firm-level-data http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20510 |
| Summary: | This study explores the relationship
between mandating a nondiscrimination clause in hiring
practices along gender lines and the employment of women
versus men in 58 developing countries. The study finds a
strong positive relationship between a nondiscrimination in
hiring clause and women's relative to men's
employment. The relationship is robust to several controls
at the firm and country levels. The results also show sharp
heterogeneity in the relationship between the
nondiscrimination in hiring clause and women's versus
men's employment, with the relationship being much
larger in richer countries and in countries with more women
in the population as well as among relatively smaller firms. |
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