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A strictly economic explanation of gender roles: The lasting legacy of the plough.
Cigno, Alessandro - 2020
income, and the less productive one in raising children, irrespective of gender, an efficient domestic equilibrium will be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271916
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The Gender Pay Gap in the US: A Matching Study
Meara, Katie; Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan - 2019
This study examines the gender wage gap in the US using two separate cross-sections from the Current Population Survey … (CPS). The extensive literature on this subject includes papers which use wage decompositions to divide gender wag gaps … order to address the difficulties of comparing like with like this study uses a number of different matching techniques to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022319
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Inequality and Welfare Dynamics in the Russian Federation during 1994-2015
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lokshin, Michael M.; Abanokova, Kseniya; … - 2019
Russia offers the unique example of a leading centrally planned economy swiftly transforming itself into a market-oriented economy. We offer a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia, using multiple rounds of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Surveys over the past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011954395
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Rapid Economic Growth but Rising Poverty Segregation: Will Vietnam Meet the SDGs for Equitable Development?
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Dhongde, Shatakshee; Do, Minh; … - 2023
Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few decades. Yet, recent evidence indicates that the country's economic growth has not been uniform. Compiling and analyzing new extensive province-level data from the Vietnam...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013532883
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Tackling the Last Hurdles of Poverty Entrenchment: An Investigation of Poverty Dynamics for Ghana during 2005/06-2016/17
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Raju, Dhushyanth; Tanaka, Tomomi; … - 2024
Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana during 2005/06-2016/17, addressing the lack of actual panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014455127
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Poverty in Russia: A Bird's-Eye View of Trends and Dynamics in the Past Quarter of Century
Abanokova, Kseniya; Dang, Hai-Anh H. - 2021
Hardly any recent study exists that broadly reviews poverty trends over time for Russia. Analyzing the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Surveys between 1994 and 2019, we offer an updated review of poverty trends and dynamics for the country over the past quarter of century. We find that poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585217
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Firm Size and Union Threat Effects across Genders: Evidence from NLSY79
Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2017
to play in achieving a narrowing of the gender union wage gap. Further, given the presence of noticeable gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011626963
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The Impact of Early Marriage on Women’s Employment in the Middle East and North Africa
Assaad, Ragui; Krafft, Caroline; Selwaness, Irene - 2017
Marriage is a central stage in the transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This paper builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women’s employment in MENA. Besides examining how different types of work are affected by early marriage (defined as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011642567
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Divorce among European and Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.
Chiswick, Barry R.; Houseworth, Christina A. - 2019
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054558
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Just Like A Woman? New Comparative Evidence on the Gender Income Gap across Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2018
I examine the incidence and determinants of the gender income gap in Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia, Tajikistan … substantively large gender income gap (favoring males) in all six countries; (2) some evidence of a gender-related glass ceiling in … decreasing the gender income gap in these former formally gender neutral economies — notably through attention towards the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011843628