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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 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 …
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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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This paper compares gender wage gaps for Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador from the mid-1990s to the mid …-2000s using the non-parametric matching methodology introduced by Ñopo (2008), which allows an analysis not only of average …, the wage gap is substantial when workers with comparable human capital characteristics are considered. Although the gender …
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gender income inequalities in seven Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and … insurance contributions on an individual basis according to each countrys rules. Then, we compare gender income ratios based on … the distribution, tax-benefit systems significantly reduce gender income disparities in most countries due to the effect …
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xperiment designed to increase property tax compliance to investigate this gender disparity. Our findings reaffirm that women ar …
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We present a methodology for the structural empirical analysis of household consumption and time use behaviour under marital stability. Our approach is of the revealed preference type and non-parametric, meaning that it does not require a prior functional specification of individual utilities....
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and high-SES students. By matching our survey data with administrative data on real college applications and admissions … female and low-SES students. Among top students, our intervention closes 72% of the gender gap in admissions to elite …
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how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We …
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This paper presents evidence of the effects of gender diversity on firm innovation outcomes and their productivity in … endogeneity issues of women’s participation in STI and innovation behavior. An upward bias of the impact of gender diversity on … innovation might arise because more dynamic and innovative managers, knowing the value of gender diversity, may also hire more …
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