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This paper looks at the gender wage gap throughout the transition from communism to capitalism and throughout a time of … participation for women. Although the regime was formally egalitarian, the gender attitudes were conservative and the raw gender … wage gap was as large as 41% at the end of the communist period in Estonia. The large gender wage gap under communist rule …
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This paper studies the effect of firms'export activity on the gender wage gap among its workers. Using matched employer …, which reinforces female comparative advantage and reduces (widens) the gender wage gap in white-collar (blue …
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, permitting us to construct gender- and education-specific age-wage profiles, as well as measures of life cycle inequality within …- and between-education groups and gender. Although common within-group time effects are shown to be a key driver of labor … protected from the lower skill prices of the 1970s. The gender wage gap is found to increase sharply across the distribution in …
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This paper estimates the effect of childcare availability on parents' employment probability using the timing of death of grandmothers-the primary childcare providers in Mexico-as identifying variation. I use a triple-difference to disentangle the effect of coinhabiting grandmothers' deaths due...
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congestion policy, spatial planning and transport infrastructure provision, but are also relevant to our understanding of gender … differences in labour market biographies. For estimation, we use a stratified partial likelihood model on a large administrative …
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, teachers, and peers. We find no evidence of differential responses by gender. …
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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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