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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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The return of the policy that shall not be named : principles of industrial policy

Chérif, Réda; Hasanov, Fuad - 2019

Industrial policy is tainted with bad reputation among policymakers and academics and is often viewed as the road to perdition for developing economies. Yet the success of the Asian Miracles with industrial policy stands as an uncomfortable story that many ignore or claim it cannot be...

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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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The leap of the tiger : how Malaysia can escape the middle-income trap

Chérif, Réda; Hasanov, Fuad - 2015

Only a few European economies and Korea and Taiwan Province of China reached high-income status during 1970-2010. Malaysia’s real income per capita increased to 26 percent of the U.S. level in 2010 from 20 percent in 1970. Despite relatively strong growth and a substantial improvement in...

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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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Who will bear the brunt of lockdown policies? : evidence from tele-workability measures across countries

Brussevich, Mariya; Dabla-Norris, Era; Khalid, Salma - 2020

Lockdowns imposed around the world to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic are having a differential impact on economic activity and jobs. This paper presents a new index of the feasibility to work from home to investigate what types of jobs are most at risk. We estimate that over 97.3...

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