. In our baseline simulation, we obtain an output per capita loss due to these gender gaps of 9.4 percent, all of which is …

This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated …: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a …. Finally, it reflect on differences in the ways that gender inequalities play out across different socio-economic groups …

accessing digital platforms are more symmetric across gender than traditional trade costs, digital trade platforms can play an … important role in making trade more gender equal. To assess this hypothesis, we combine information on firms' participation in … the role of women-managed businesses in reducing gender earnings inequality, these results suggest that policies which …

xperiment designed to increase property tax compliance to investigate this gender disparity. Our findings reaffirm that women ar …

As the measurement of public opinion and attitudes toward gender issues has gained increasing attention in gender … examine the impact of the gender of the interviewer on survey responses in Latin America and the Caribbean, both individually … the gender of the interviewer may influence responses and derive an optimal adjustment in survey design and analysis to …

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 …

This paper complements the findings of Atal, Ñopo and Winder (2009) on gender and ethnic wage gaps for 18 Latin … American countries circa 2005 by analyzing gender wage gaps for the same countries between circa 1992 and circa 2007. During … this span the overall gender earnings gaps dropped about 7 percentage points, while the unexplained component dropped …

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 …