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This paper documents gender differences in social ties and develops a theory that links them to disparities in men …
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This paper surveys gender wage gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent to … second and the third. The gender wage gap remains largely unexplained after controlling for different combinations of socio … middle of the wage distributions than the extremes, possibly due to a gender-equalizing effect of the minimum wage. Moreover …
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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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discrimination in terms of hiring recommendations, job fit assessments, or wage offers. However, a closer analysis reveals a gender … discrimination towards LGBTQ+ workers in the labor market and its interaction with gender. …
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between foreign work experience and monthly income. Importantly, these outcomes remain consistent irrespective of the time …
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This chapter examines socioeconomic inequality in Latin America through the lens of race and ethnicity. We primarily … measures of race and ethnicity, we also draw on two additional measures from the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP …
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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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In this paper we discuss some strands of the recent literature on the evolution of gender gaps and their driving forces …. We will revisit key stylized facts about gender gaps in employment and wages in a few high-income countries. We then … discuss and build on one gender-neutral force behind the rise in female employment, namely the rise of the service economy …
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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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