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Is technology widening the gender gap? : automation and the future of female employment

Brussevich, Mariya; Dabla-Norris, Era; Khalid, Salma - 2019

Using individual level data on task composition at work for 30 advanced and emerging economies, we find that women, on average, perform more routine tasks than men?tasks that are more prone to automation. To quantify the impact on jobs, we relate data on task composition at work to occupation...

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Market discipline and conflicts of interest between banks and pension funds

Barajas, Adolfo; Catalán, Mario - 2011

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Digitalization to improve tax compliance : evidence from VAT e-invoicing in Peru

Bellon, Matthieu; Chang, Jillie; Dabla-Norris, Era; … - 2019

This paper examines the impact of e-invoicing on firm tax compliance and performance using administrative tax data and quasi-experimental variation in the rollout of VAT electronic invoicing in Peru. We find that e-invoicing increases reported firm sales, purchases and value-added by over 5...

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Banks During the Argentine Crisis : Were they All Hurt Equally? Did they All Behave Equally?

Juan-Ramon, V. Hugo - 2006

The simple answer to both questions in the title of this paper is: No. We concentrate on the three main risk elements that contributed to the banking system’s difficulties during the crisis: increasing dollarization of the balance sheet, expanding exposure to the government, and, eventually,...

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Market Discipline and Conflicts of Interest Between Banks and Pension Funds

Barajas, Adolfo - 2011

examine whether, and if so how, pension funds influence market discipline in Argentina in the period 1998-2001. We find …

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China's rebalancing and gender inequality

Brussevich, Mariya; Dabla-Norris, Era; Li, Bin - 2021

declining women's relative wages and labor force participation in China during the last two decades, despite rapid growth and …

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Reducing and redistributing unpaid work : stronger policies to support gender equality

Alonso, Cristian; Brussevich, Mariya; Dabla-Norris, Era; … - 2019

Unpaid work, such as caring for children, the elderly, and household chores represents a significant share of economic activity but is not counted as part of GDP. Women disproportionately shoulder the burden of unpaid work: on average, women do two more hours of unpaid work per day than men,...

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Rent Seeking and Endogenous Income Inequality

Wade, Paul - 2001

This paper studies the relationship between wealth inequality and occupational choice between rent-seeking and production. With imperfect credit markets and a fixed cost to rent-seeking, only wealthy agents choose to engage in rent-seeking as it enables them to protect their wealth from...

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Are low-skill women being left behind? : labor market evidence from the UK

Dabla-Norris, Era; Pizzinelli, Carlo; Rappaport, Jay - 2022

, period, and cohort effects for the likelihood of employment in different occupations and the wages earned therein over 2001 …-2019. For recent generations of women, cohort effects indicate a higher likelihood of employment in low-paying manual jobs … relative to high-paying abstract jobs. However, cohort effects also underpin falling wages for post-1980 cohorts across all …

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Job polarization and the declining fortunes of the young : evidence from the United Kingdom

Dabla-Norris, Era; Pizzinelli, Carlo; Rappaport, Jay - 2019

in the probability of being employed within each occupation type and wages earned therein. Cohort plots and econometric … particularly significant for low-skill women: estimated cohort effects point to a fall in wages within each occupation as well as a …

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