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This paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching …-employed workers and those in small firms. Ethnic wage differences are greater than gender differences, and educational attainment …
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. The higher propensity to work from home and better educational attainments of women deterred gender wage gap expansion, as … empirically investigate the dynamics and drivers of gender gaps in employment rates, wages and workhours during the pandemic …. Relying on Estonian Labour Force Survey data, we document that the pandemic has, if anything, reduced gender inequality in all …
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This paper documents and studies the gender gap in performance among associate lawyers in the United States. Unlike … clear evidence of a gender gap in annual performance with respect to both measures. Male lawyers bill ten percent more hours … gender gaps in lawyers' earnings and subsequent promotion. Whereas individual and firm characteristics explain up to 50 …
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based on data derived from the PISA 2009 database, the presented findings show that the vast majority of this gender …
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This paper analyzes gender bias in teaching in low-performing schools in Chile. To carry out the analyses, the authors … teachers' actions that resulted in less attention to female students. Gender bias had an even greater effect in classrooms … Classroom Assessment Scoring System, or CLASS) show a larger gender bias. Greater gender bias is also correlated with lower …
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unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …
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We randomly assigned consumer loan requests (of random amount and length) to gender-balanced prospective-borrowers who … submitted by women are 18.3% less likely to be approved, with most of the gender effect coming from gender-biased officers … repayment rates than men and find that gender-biased officers in the treatment-group discriminated more against women relative …
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The fraction of women in economics has grown significantly over the last forty years. In spite of this, the differences in research output between men and women are large and persistent. These output differences are related to differences in the co-authorship networks of men and women: women...
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labor market, according to gender, across four Latin American countries. We find that information and communication … for both men and women. However, there is a significant gender gap that favors men on the STEM returns. There is also a … sizable gender gap regarding the amount of skills accumulated by gender. Through an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, we estimate …
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This paper studies the effect of firms'export activity on the gender wage gap among its workers. Using matched employer …, which reinforces female comparative advantage and reduces (widens) the gender wage gap in white-collar (blue …
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