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This paper aims at examining wage compression in Europe, defined as a relatively small wage differentials compared with productivity differences. Using the publicly available data on wages drawn from the Structure of Earnings Survey 2002, it considers the existence of wage compression both...
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In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this paper aims to investigate the impact of...
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The evidence on gender discrimination in lending remains controversial. To capture gender biases in banks’ loan … endogeneity. Our empirical findings suggest that the change in the MFI’s gender-related attitude was triggered by banks through co …
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period, the MFI does not co-finance projects with mainstream banks and loan size is gender-insensitive. In the second period …, the MFI does co-finance above-ceiling projects with mainstream banks, and we observe a gender gap in loan size. The … results suggest that co-financing leads the originally gender-neutral MFI to import disparate treatment from mainstream banks. …
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managers to cooperatives with female-dominated boards, probably to curb the social orientation of these boards. Overall, gender … is a key factor in considering social performance, but gender interactions appear far more complex than previously …
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The unequal treatment of children is not gender neutral from the parent side. Our results show that women try to … symmetry between mothers' and fathers' financial situations leads to the perpetuation of gender inequality through generations. …
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, migration, gender and wealth data and combine this with secondary sources on the location and timing of the conflict. Depending …
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order to assess the existence of gender discrimination in small-business lending. This is precisely the aim of this paper … institution. The empirical results point to gender discrimination. Additionally, it is shown that reducing the information …
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In the microfinance industry the idea of “empowerment” is often valued as a means to encourage female emancipation from male domination. This paper’s main purpose is to draw on women’s testimonies and narratives to highlight the fundamental importance within these processes of women’s...
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from a given group, or 3) no impact. The empirical analysis detects no gender bias in approval rate, but uncovers a glass … ceiling effect hurting female applicants. Moreover, this effect is insensitive to the credit officer's gender. In conclusion …
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