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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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-headed microenterprises, particularly those with a higher baseline level of profits, to close the gender profit gap in performance and skills …
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differential economic and social outcomes between the genders. Here, we present a global investigation of gender differences in six … to take risks, patience, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity as well as trust. Gender differences in preferences … were positively related to economic development and gender equality. This suggests that greater availability of and equal …
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rates (at over 80%), the unconditional gender gap in log hourly wages has increased by a half, while that in log of net and … tended to reduce (not to increase) the gender wage gap: in fact, women have benefited both of changes in the degree of wage …
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document that gender differences in schooling and educational mobility, found among older-aged individuals, disappeared in the … younger population. -- intergenerational mobility ; educational attainment ; gender ; transition economy ; Kyrgyzstan …
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This paper uses new micro data from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to examine the gender gaps … started to be considered a market economy (2003). We find that the gender pay gap is higher in the top half of the … sector. The fall in the gender gap in the lower part of the distribution from 1986 to 2003 is explained partially by the …
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their relationship can be used as a reflection of broader gender preferences. We study these decisions to identify gender …-International inventory around 2000 and 2010, we examine the effect of the gender of the first-born child(ren) on the fertility and …
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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 …
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This paper reviews the main features of the banking and financial sector in ten new EU members, and then examines the relationship between financial development and economic growth in these countries by estimating a dynamic panel model over the period 1994-2007. The evidence suggests that the...
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This paper develops a model in which the interaction of entrepreneurial investments and power of the owners of land or other natural resources determines structural change and economic development. A more equal distribution of natural resources promotes structural change and growth through two...
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