Women's Access to Economic Opportunities in Serbia
This report focuses on better understanding the factors that influence women’s economic opportunities in particular, an area in which significant inequalities remain. Women’s economic opportunity is defined as a set of laws, regulations, and practi...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/09/26783427/womens-access-economic-opportunities-serbia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25183 |
| Summary: | This report focuses on better
understanding the factors that influence women’s economic
opportunities in particular, an area in which significant
inequalities remain. Women’s economic opportunity is defined
as a set of laws, regulations, and practices that allow
women to participate in the workforce under conditions
roughly equal to those of men, whether as wage-earning
employees or as owners of businesses. As such, the report
looks into the ability of women to accumulate and build-up
critical endowments - education and health, and to
participate in the labor market and have access to jobs. By
reviewing the institutions and policies relevant to gender
equality in access to economic opportunities in Serbia, the
intention is also to point out necessary improvements in
policies and programs that will encourage women’s
participation in the workplace and thus create a more
productive economy overall. The analysis mostly relies on
exploiting a new dataset for Serbia, the Survey on Income
and Living Conditions (SILC), together with Labor Force
Survey (LFS) data. The structure of the report is as
follows. The first section focuses on gaps in endowments,
mostly education but with insights into health care, and
labor market outcomes. The second section provides an
assessment of the institutional infrastructure for promoting
gender equality and analyzes policies that support female
labor force participation. The report concludes with several
recommendations for policy reforms that could enhance
women’s access to economic opportunities in Serbia. |
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