documented gender disparities in access to economic opportunities, earnings, and productivity. Such gender disparities in the …As compared to the majority of countries in the East Asia and Pacific Region, gender disparities in Mongolia are … relatively muted. At the same time, a number of important gender disparities do exist. In particular, several studies have …

This paper proposes a new decomposition method to understand how gender pay gaps arise within firms. The method …

This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women …'s outcomes across various domains (categories) that constitute the Women in Business and the Law measure of gender inequality …. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant negative consequences of legal gender discrimination on women …

. The study does not find evidence of other gender differences in the hiring process …

This paper examines the role of industrial and occupational segregation in explaining the gender wage gap and its … evolution in Georgia between 2004 and 2015. It first documents the declining trends observed in the gender wage gap in Georgia … gender wage gap and its decline by decomposing the gender wage gap into the within-category and between-category components …

This first note in the series on the cost of gender inequality focuses on the losses in national wealth due to gender … inequality in earnings. There is a substantial literature on the impact of gender inequality on economic growth and performance … gender equality in earnings were achieved, countries could increase their human capital wealth, and thereby their total …

This review of gender issues aims to uncover the main gender gaps in the country, and to identify potential policy … recommendations that could help closing them in the coming years. The note is an input to the development of a Gender Action Plan for … the Andean Countries under the Gender Analysis Work Program.The note lays out a descriptive overview of gender gaps in …

economically inefficient. Greater gender equality can raise overall productivity, improve development outcomes, especially of the …Closing the existing gender gaps will be required to boost shared prosperity and maximize poverty reduction efforts in … Peru over the coming years. Gender inequities are not only unfair from an ethical and social perspective, but also …

comprehensive overview of gender differences in property ownership in the developing world. Using Demographic and Health Survey data … from 41 developing countries, this paper seeks to fill this gap, by investigating the extent of gender gaps in the … systems. The study finds that there is substantial variation in gender gaps across countries, but in almost all countries men …

This paper decomposes the gender gap in pay in the Russian Federation along the earnings distribution for the period … the gender pay gap decrease along the earnings distribution; and if women's pay took into account their educational … degrees as much as men's, the gender pay gap would disappear or even reverse at the top of the earnings distribution. The …