gender-based earnings. The authors find large positive wage premiums and a closing of the male-female wage gap during the MFA …

schooling and skills differ between men and women and how those differences relate to gender gaps in earnings across nine middle …

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 …

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 … economically inefficient. Greater gender equality can raise overall productivity, improve development outcomes, especially of the …

narrowing of gender gaps in educational attainment over the past half-century. This paper examines the gender wage gap in … occupational sorting among the adult labor force is driven by social norms about gender roles learned and internalized at an early … analysis simulates what the gender wage gap would be if boys and girls pursued the occupations they aspired to at age 12, and …

leisure, home production, and work. The paper aims to explain labor market gender gaps in a marginalized Roma population with … Regional Roma Survey for six Western Balkan countries. The simulation results show that the main source for gender … differentials in the labor market is the unequal opportunities in favor of males - not gender preferences or differences in home …

Gender-based wage discrimination is a highly researched area of labor economics. However, most studies on this topic … Measurement Survey to conduct a comparative analysis of gender wage gaps. The paper uses schooling and skills measures, including … gender wage gap. The findings also suggest that cognitive and noncognitive skills affect men's and women's earnings in …

integration measures on gender employment and wages. The study incorporates gender-differentiated employment and wages for … green trade sectors. This is the first major attempt to develop a gender-differentiated data set for South Asian countries …, within the widely used Global Trade Analysis Project framework, to examine the nexus between trade, green economy, and gender …

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 … documented gender disparities in access to economic opportunities, earnings, and productivity. Such gender disparities in the …

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