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Glass ceiling in research : evidence from a national program in Uruguay : prepared for the Institutions for Development Department

Bukstein, Daniel; Gandelman, Néstor - 2017

This paper presents evidence that female researchers have 7.1 percentage points lower probability of being accepted into the largest national research support program in Uruguay than male researchers. They also have lower research productivity than their male counterparts. Differences in...

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The cost of competitiveness of manufacturing in China and India : an industry and regional perspective

Ark, Bart van (contributor) - 2008

manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international … perspective. We find that China has increased its labor productivity to a level above that of India, but due to a somewhat higher … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In …

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The effects of real exchange rate fluctuations on the gender wage gap and domestic violence in Uruguay

Munyo, Ignacio; Rossi, Martín Antonio - 2015

exchange rate between 2002 and 2003, followed by an equally considerable appreciation between 2004 and 2010. We explore the …

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Gender gaps in performance : evidence from young lawyers

Azmat, Ghazala; Ferrer, Rosa - 2015

This paper documents and studies the gender gap in performance among associate lawyers in the United States. Unlike other high-skilled professions, the legal profession assesses performance using transparent measures that are widely used and comparable across firms: the number of hours billed to...

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Gender gaps across countries and skills : demand, supply and the industry structure

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2014

The comovement between gender gaps in hours and wages across countries and skills reveals the presence of net demand forces shaping gender differences in labor market outcomes. This paper links the rich pattern of variation in gender gaps to the process of structural transformation. Based on a...

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Gender gaps in education and labor market outcomes in the United States : the impact of employers' prejudice

Flabbi, Luca; Tejada, Mauricio - 2012

This paper makes three contributions to the existing literature. First, it provides descriptive evidence on gender differentials by education level in the US labor market over the last twenty years. Second, it uses the structural estimation of a search model of the labor market to identify and...

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Immigration and the gender wage gap

Edo, Anthony; Toubal, Farid - 2015

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The impact of gender discrimination on the job search strategies of redeployed public sector workers

Mills, Bradford F. - 1994

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Gender gaps in employment, wages, and work hours : assessment of COVID-19 implications

Tverdostup, Maryna - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has highly asymmetric effects on labour market outcomes of men and women. In this paper, we empirically investigate the dynamics and drivers of gender gaps in employment rates, wages and workhours during the pandemic. Relying on Estonian Labour Force Survey data, we...

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The gap that survived the transition : the gender wage gap over three decades in Estonia

Meriküll, Jaanika; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2021

This paper looks at the gender wage gap throughout the transition from communism to capitalism and throughout a time of rapid economic convergence. The case of Estonia is used, and micro data from the Labour Force Survey from 1989 to 2020 are employed. The communist regimes had highly regulated...

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