Showing 1 - 10 of 474
This paper proposes a new decomposition method to understand how gender pay gaps arise within firms. The method …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257049
This paper examines the role of industrial and occupational segregation in explaining the gender wage gap and its … evolution in Georgia between 2004 and 2015. It first documents the declining trends observed in the gender wage gap in Georgia … gender wage gap and its decline by decomposing the gender wage gap into the within-category and between-category components …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011929519
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002558
"This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003780226
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001370640
This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women …'s outcomes across various domains (categories) that constitute the Women in Business and the Law measure of gender inequality …. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant negative consequences of legal gender discrimination on women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004791
. The study does not find evidence of other gender differences in the hiring process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229129
comprehensive overview of gender differences in property ownership in the developing world. Using Demographic and Health Survey data … from 41 developing countries, this paper seeks to fill this gap, by investigating the extent of gender gaps in the … systems. The study finds that there is substantial variation in gender gaps across countries, but in almost all countries men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390548
integration measures on gender employment and wages. The study incorporates gender-differentiated employment and wages for … green trade sectors. This is the first major attempt to develop a gender-differentiated data set for South Asian countries …, within the widely used Global Trade Analysis Project framework, to examine the nexus between trade, green economy, and gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228399
and investigated in different settings. Using a field experiment, this paper examines the presence and magnitude of gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297473