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's gender pay gap. Using micro-data for 22 countries over the 1985-94 period, we find that more compressed male wage structures … and lower female net supply are both associated with a lower gender pay gap. Since it is likely that labor market … between the gender pay gap and male wage inequality suggests that wage-setting mechanisms, such as encompassing collective …
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We document and analyze the emergence of a substantial gender gap in mathematics in the early years of schooling using … score gap that appears over these same ages. We document the presence of this gender math gap across every strata of society …, we find that earlier results linking the gender gap in math to measures of gender equality are sensitive to the inclusion …
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likely to be religious. In this paper, I use data from the Gallup World Poll to study the within and between country … relationships between religiosity, age, and gender, as well as the effects of religiosity on a range of health measures and health …
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characteristics and on countries' regulatory differences. We show that individual characteristics, such as gender, age, and status in …
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's Soccer World Cup and to do well in that competition. This effect of relative labor force participation rates on athletic …
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Though the real exchange rate is a key price for most economies, our understanding of its determinants is still incomplete. This paper studies the implications of status competition in the marriage market for the real exchange rate. In theory, a rise in the sex ratio (increasing relative surplus...
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's impact on the labor market. Another notable finding is the central role of telecommuting: gender gaps in the employment … telecommuters a different kind of gender gap arises: women working from home during the pandemic spent more work time also doing … childcare and experienced greater productivity reductions than men. We discuss what our findings imply for gender equality in a …
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' willingness to work with different coauthors. There are only small gender differences in the impacts of age on numbers of …
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younger people; between developed and developing countries; and by other demographic characteristics such as gender, marital …
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growth of human capital and several of its constituent factors are broken down by gender and by region, and in some cases … also by income, since apparently, human capital in the world is not evenly distributed across different regions or … capital have grown over time. The purpose is to identify the sources of human capital growth by region, gender, and various …
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