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"This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila...
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The gender wage gap in Thailand is much less significant than in most countries in the world. The average hourly wage … among female workers, in fact, slightly surpasses that of males. This highly equitable gender wage pattern is seen at all … females in low-wage jobs is as high as in high-wage jobs. One important factor driving this gender wage parity is the higher …
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"It is generally expected that immigrants do not fare as well as the native-born in the U.S. labor market. The literature also documents that Blacks experience lower labor market outcomes than Whites. This paper innovates by studying the interaction between race and immigration. The study...
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"Loayza and Soto present policy and outcome-based ways of measuring the progress of market-oriented reforms in both traditional areas of first-generation reform and the areas of institutional reform that have been emphasized lately. These policy areas are the domestic financial system,...
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