Gendered Laws

This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women's economic opportunity and charts the evolution of legal inequalities over five decades. Using the World Bank's newly extended W...

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Main Authors:	Hyland, Marie Caitriona, Djankov, Simeon, Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:	LAW GENDER EMPLOYMENT FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION GENDER INEQUALITY LABOR MARKET GENDER WAGE GAP
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/514981576015899984/Gendered-Laws http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33051

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spelling	okr-10986-330512022-09-20T00:10:11Z Gendered Laws Hyland, Marie Caitriona Djankov, Simeon Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou LAW GENDER EMPLOYMENT FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION GENDER INEQUALITY LABOR MARKET GENDER WAGE GAP This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women's economic opportunity and charts the evolution of legal inequalities over five decades. Using the World Bank's newly extended Women, Business and the Law database, the paper documents large and persistent gender inequalities, especially with regard to equal pay and treatment of parenthood. The paper finds positive associations between improvements in the law and several labor market outcomes, and establishes a small, but over time increasing, causal impact of more equal laws on higher female labor force participation. 2019-12-19T16:14:20Z 2019-12-19T16:14:20Z 2019-12 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/514981576015899984/Gendered-Laws http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33051 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9080 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
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description	This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women's economic opportunity and charts the evolution of legal inequalities over five decades. Using the World Bank's newly extended Women, Business and the Law database, the paper documents large and persistent gender inequalities, especially with regard to equal pay and treatment of parenthood. The paper finds positive associations between improvements in the law and several labor market outcomes, and establishes a small, but over time increasing, causal impact of more equal laws on higher female labor force participation.
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author	Hyland, Marie Caitriona Djankov, Simeon Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou
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title	Gendered Laws
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publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2019
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/514981576015899984/Gendered-Laws http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33051
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