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We study the labor supply impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by gender in four Latin American and Caribbean (LAC … significantly stronger for women, magnifying the already large gender gaps that characterize LAC countries. The main channel through …
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This paper describes the patterns of worker turnover in selected Latin American countries and their implications for wage inequality. It documents a higher positive annual wage growth rate for job to job changers compared to stayers, due to turnover capturing the immediate gains from search...
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labor market, according to gender, across four Latin American countries. We find that information and communication … for both men and women. However, there is a significant gender gap that favors men on the STEM returns. There is also a … sizable gender gap regarding the amount of skills accumulated by gender. Through an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, we estimate …
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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 …
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the 2018-2021 period. The analysis focuses on the divergences in out-of-unemployment transitions and medium … detachment, prolonged periods of unemployment or a diminished success rate in reemployment. However, certain socio …
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This chapter provides an account of the major family transformations that occurred in recent decades across Latin American and Caribbean countries and examines the implications of such transformations for childrens school attendance and progress and womens labor force participation. Latin...
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This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and … by 10.6 percentage points, whereas closing the gender gaps between men and women would lead to an increase of 2 ….5 percentage points. At the same time, closing both the gender and education gaps would raise the EU employment rate from 76% to 89 …
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