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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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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 document that the pandemic has, if anything, reduced gender inequality in all … - rising as infections mounted and declining as the first wave flattened - overall, the pandemic did not exacerbate gender gaps …
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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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addition, even if it is approaching a gender-equal split, the withincouple division of housework barely passes the point at … aligns broadly with traditional theories of the household, yet the role of the 'doing-gender' hypothesis is non-negligible. …
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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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unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …
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In this paper we discuss some strands of the recent literature on the evolution of gender gaps and their driving forces …. We will revisit key stylized facts about gender gaps in employment and wages in a few high-income countries. We then … discuss and build on one gender-neutral force behind the rise in female employment, namely the rise of the service economy …
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congestion policy, spatial planning and transport infrastructure provision, but are also relevant to our understanding of gender …
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. -- Labor Intensity ; Employment Growth ; Labor Productivity ; Capital Productivity ; Organized Manufacturing …
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This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India’s organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive sectors. Using primary survey data covering 252 labour intensive manufacturing-exporting firms...
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