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This paper proposes an extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition from two to a continuum of comparison groups. The proposed decomposition is then estimated for the case of racial wage differences in urban Peru, exploiting a novel data set that allows the capturing of mestizaje (racial mixtures).
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characteristics that, arguably, should play no role on the determination of wages: gender and ethnicity. This paper analyzes wage gaps … Ñopo (2008). The results indicate ethnic wage gaps that are notably higher than gender wage gaps. Furthermore, ethnic wage …-half of the ethnic wage gaps but only a small fraction of the gender wage gaps. Both gender and ethnic wage gaps are more …
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In vitro fertilization (IVF) has allowed women to delay birth and pursue a career, but it massively increasesthe risk of twin birth. We investigate the extent to which having twins hampers women's careers after birth. To do this, we leverage a single embryo transfer (SET) mandate for IVF...
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question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is unequivocally due …
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Sexual harassment of women and girls in streets and other public spaces is often trivialized by the label of "eve teasing" in South Asia. While there exists a volume of research on intimate partner or domestic violence in South Asia, the literature on public-space harassment (PSH) is sparse....
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between labor market gender equality and social reproduction (SR) or care provisioning, on economic growth across U.S. states … paper contributes new evidence to the engendering macroeconomics scholarship on promoting gender-egalitarian and pro …-care economic growth by showing that: 1) regimes characterized by strong public, market, and gender-equal care provisioning …
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Stockholm, Sweden. At this convening, 20 scholars from 13 countries shared their knowledge of women's entrepreneurship, venture …
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identified gender inequality as a common predictor for such child health deprivations. At household level, studies support this … fathers' education; thus, the gender perspective is incomplete. Therefore, this paper investigates how and through which …
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than for comparable male workers. Foreign-born workers (regardless of gender) have a lower incidence of OJT, but …
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job. A second focus is how the exit probabilities differ depending on origin and gender, i.e. a segmentation aspect. The …
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