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industrial enterprises. Women's average wages lag behind men's wages by 11%, and this result is robust to the inclusion of non …-wage income in the form of social insurance payments. The gender-wage gap is wider among workers with more than 12 years of … education (28%), mainly because of the higher relative wages received by skilled men in foreign-invested firms. Women's average …
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We study the dynamic stability of fidelity networks, which are networks that form in a mating economy of agents of two types (say men and women), where each agent desires direct links with opposite type agents, while engaging in multiple partnerships is considered an act of infidelity....
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The paper studies the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We use the ratio of male to female births in the year...
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The COVID-19 pandemic seemingly appeared out of nowhere but changed nearly everything. As the pandemic unfolded, industries deemed nonessential were leveled. Many occupations in these industries are low-wage, and women constitute a greater share of America's low-wage labor force than men. Even...
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years of DWS data to examine how the difference in wage losses across plant closing and layout varies with race and gender … that the racial and gender effects are surprisingly robust to region, industry and occupation controls. To look at the …
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We study portfolio choice when labor income and dividends are cointegrated. Economically plausible calibrations suggest young investors should take substantial short positions in the stock market. Because of cointegration the young agent's human capital effectively becomes stock-like. However,...
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wages paid to domestic workers, through simulations with a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. As such, one can … observe the implications of recent increases in the relative wages of domestic workers in Brazil, considering two concurrent …
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variation across universities and fields. We also examine the trade-off between expected starting wages and wage growth. In the …
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This paper analyzes patterns in the earnings development of young labor market en- trants over their life cycle. We identify four distinctly di®erent types of transition patterns between discrete earnings states in a large administrative data set. Further, we investigate the e®ects of labor...
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