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Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David; Troske, Kenneth R. - EconWPA - 1998

We report new evidence on the existence of sex discrimination in wages and whether competitive market forces act to reduce or eliminate discrimination. Specifically, we use plant- and firm-level data to examine the relationships between profitability, growth and ownership changes, product market...

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Ingresos y Microempresarias en Chile

Huaita, Franklin; VAlenzuela, Patricio - EconWPA - 2005

Utilizando los datos de la encuesta de Caracterización Socioeconómica CASEN 2000, este trabajo evalúa el impacto en la generación de ingresos de una mujer que logra convertirse en microempresaria en Chile, basándose en técnicas paramétricas y no paramétricas. Los resultados son robustos...

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Ingresos y Microempresarias

Huaita, Franklin; VAlenzuela, Patricio - EconWPA - 2005

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A Theory of Technology Diffusion

Mukoyama, Toshihiko - EconWPA - 2003

What determines the speed of the technology diffusion? What are the consequences of diffusion? This paper presents a model to address these questions. Skilled machine-users adopt a new technology first, while unskilled users wait until machines become more reliable and accessible. The quality...

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Lifetime learning, biased technological change and the evolution of wages in the U.S. 1960 - 1990

Waelde, Klaus - EconWPA - 1996

Stylized facts derived from wage pattern analysis in the U.S. point to the importance of non-standard explanations for changes of relative wages. Learning while working is predicted to be able to account for wage divergence so far unexplained. Increases in productivity differ among individuals...

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Egalitarian and elitist education systems as the basis for international differences in wage inequality

Wälde, Klaus - EconWPA - 2002

This paper investigates one reason why some countries have experienced a strong increase in wage inequality over the last decades while others have not. The explanation is based on the link between the quality of education and induced technological change. A country with qualitatively...

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Women, Microfinance, and Savings: Lessons and Proposals

Vonderlack, Rebecca; Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001

Microfinance—both credit and savings—has potential to improve the well- being of poor women in developing countries. This paper explores practical ways to achieve that potential. Based on lessons from informal saving mechanisms that women already use, the paper proposes two savings services...

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Gender Inequality in a Globalizing World

Seguino, Stephanie - EconWPA - 2005

effects on growth and well- being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example … growth was rapid, it was not enough to produce greater gender equality. A concentration of women in mobile export industries … that face severe competition from other low-wage countries reduces their bargaining power and inhibits closure of gender …

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Social Networks in Determining Employment and Wages: Patterns, Dynamics, and Inequality

Calvo-Armengol, Antoni; Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 2002

We develop a model where agents obtain information about job opportunities through an explicitly modeled network of social contacts. We show that an improvement in the employment status of either an agent's direct or indirect contacts leads to an increase in the agent's employment probability...

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ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION AND WAGE INEQUALITY IN THE PRESENCE OF LABOUR MARKET IMPERFECTION

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Yabuuchi, Shigemi - EconWPA - 2005

Removal of tariff restrictions from the relatively low-skill sectors; growth in foreign direct investment; and, decline of trade union strength of the unskilled workers are cited in the empirical literature as the prime factors responsible for the growing incidence of wage inequality in many of...

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