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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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"Educated parents tend to have educated children. But is intergenerational transmission of human capital more nature, more nurture, or both? De Walque uses household survey data from Rwanda that contains a large proportion of children living in households without their biological parents. The...
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