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Institutions, Markets and Men’s and Women’s Wage Inequality: Evidence from Ukraine

Ganguli, Ina; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

work toward increasing inequality for both men and women. The institution of the minimum wage plays an important role in …

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Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Using 2005 firm level data for 26 ECA countries, this paper estimates performance gaps between male- and female-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find that female entrepreneurs have significantly smaller scale of operations (as measured by sales...

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Explaining Gender Differences in Unemployment with Micro Data on Flows in Post-Communist Economies

Lauerová, Jana Stefanová; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

and gender differences began to vary greatly across these countries. We provide the first systematic analysis of the … determinants of the gender unemployment gap in the Czech Republic using a method that decomposes unemployment rates into transition … further examine the flows in the Czech Republic by estimating gender-specific multinomial logit models to learn which factors …

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