diff --git a/scoping_review.qmd b/scoping_review.qmd index e66ec76..c770a99 100644 --- a/scoping_review.qmd +++ b/scoping_review.qmd @@ -611,6 +611,62 @@ Since policies employed in the pursuit of increased equality can take a wide for the following synthesis will first categorize between the main thematic area and its associated interventions, which are then distinguished between for their primary outcome inequalities. +Findings: + +| area of policy | findings | channels | +| --- | ---- | ---- | +| minimum wage | mixed evidence for short-/medium-term income inequality impacts | can lead to income compression at higher-earner ends | +| | some evidence for long-term inequality decrease | job loss offsets through higher wages | +| | | some spatial transfer from urban manufacturing sectors to rural agricultural sectors | +| | bad targeting can exacerbate existing inequalities | negative effect on women's hours worked if strong household labour divisions | +| | | low-earners sometimes secondary high-income household earners while low-wage households have no earners at all | +| | potential impact larger for single parents, rural/disadvantaged locations | women more affected if they make up large share of low-wage earners | +| | | | +| paid leave | evidence for significant increase in rtw after childbirth | esp. disadvantaged women benefit due to no prior employer-funded leave | +| | some evidence for positive rtw effects to occur with medium-/long-term time delay | short-term exit but no long-term increase to hiring pattern discrimination | +| | | can exacerbate existing household labour division | +| | mixed evidence for fixed-/short-term contracts counter-acting effect on rtw | fixed-term contracts often insufficiently covered by otherwise applicable labour regulation | +| | | | +| collective bargaining | evidence for decreased income inequality with strong unionisation | stronger collective political power vector enables more equal redistributive policies | +| | | increased probability for employment on formal, standard employment contract | +| | marginal evidence for increased income/representation of women/minorities in workforce/management | internal heterogeneity due to predominantly affecting median part of wage distribution | +| | | self-selection of people joining more unionised enterprises/organisations/sectors | +| | | depending on targeting of concurrent policies can bestow more benefits on men, increasing horizontal inequalities | + +Strength of Evidence + +```{python} +# Create a dictionary with the data for the dataframe +data = { + 'strong_internal_validity': [ + 'weak', 'strong', 'strong', 'strong', 'strong', 'weak', 'strong', #minimum wage + 'strong', 'weak', 'strong', 'strong', # paid leave + 'strong', 'weak' # protective env policies + ], + 'strong_external_validity': [ + 'strong', 'strong', 'weak', 'weak', 'strong', 'strong', 'strong', #minimum wage + 'strong', 'strong', 'weak', 'weak', # paid leave + 'strong', 'weak' # prot env policies + ], + 'policy': [ + 'minimum wage', 'minimum wage', 'minimum wage', 'minimum wage', 'minimum wage', 'minimum wage', 'minimum wage', + 'paid leave', 'paid leave', 'paid leave', 'paid leave', + 'environmental infrastructure','environmental infrastructure' + ] +} + +# Create the dataframe +test_df = pd.DataFrame(data) + +# Assuming df is your dataframe +# Melt the dataframe to long format for plotting +melted_df = test_df.melt(value_vars=['strong_internal_validity', 'strong_external_validity'], id_vars +='policy', var_name='Validity') + +# Create a stacked histplot using Seaborn +sns.histplot(data=melted_df, y='policy', hue='Validity', multiple='stack') +``` + ## Institutional ### Labour laws and regulatory systems