Both in the UK and in the US, we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry: Black men are … simple preference for a taller husband, can explain a large proportion of these ethnic-specific gender asymmetries. Blacks …

workers; or it may be the result of rewarding non-economic characteristics such as gender. Using data from the 1995 …, nationally representative Bulgaria Integrated Household Survey, I examine whether gender discrimination is an important factor … determining the gap in wages between men and women and the extent to which gender discrimination affects wage inequality. I model …

considering issues of gender. We pose the question whether there may be some correlation between violence and the lack meaningful …

three regions of Russia to analyze the gender and generational differences in factors influencing motivation to work. Five … this survey. Fourth, gender differences involve the relative importance of particular motivators rather than differences in …

’s organization. In each case we identify where gender and generational differences emerge. Our main objective is to determine whether …

An alleged achievement of socialism was gender equality in the labour market. Has its collapse shattered this …

This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist … countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general …, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which available data relate. Most of the gender pay gap is ascribed to …

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 …

comparative advantage (CA) in U.S. services trade with China and India from 1992 to 2010. The results indicate that the U.S. has a … recently China, gained a CA in modern services, such as computer and information services during the period considered in this … losing its initial dominance. In contrast, the U.S. CA or CDA vis-à-vis China exhibits high levels of persistence over time …

China's reform worked and produced one of the most impressive growth in the largest developing and transition economy … in the world in the past twenty-two years. That China has managed to grow so rapidly despite the absence of many … initial conditions and to function as stepping stones in the transition toward the goal. Underlying China's reform is a serial …