gender wage gap, decisions to invest in skills, the composition of employment and unemployment, and long-run growth. The … analysis uses a gender-based overlapping generations model with labor market rigidities. Gender bias in the workplace varies … aimed at mitigating gender bias in the workplace can promote growth and be significantly magnified through a stronger …

, of apparel employment in developing countries. This paper focuses on how the forces of globalization, specifically the … gender-based earnings. The authors find large positive wage premiums and a closing of the male-female wage gap during the MFA … identify the potential development effects of post-MFA apparel employment and to thoroughly compare the benefits documented in …

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

assistance agencies. One of the reasons for this hurdle may well be that gender advocates and growth devotees are speaking … paper outlines a framework for gender-enhanced growth diagnostics that can be used to identify win-win solutions based on … or that from a pro-gender reform aimed at closing gender gaps. Using Turkey's country growth diagnostics and data on …

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 …

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 …

higher in households where women own a larger share of the land and when they are more educated. Controlling for the gender …

The reversal of the gender gap in educational attainment is becoming a global phenomenon. Its drivers, however, are not … authors find that both hypotheses strongly predict the gender gap dynamics in educational attainment when estimated separately … contribution of the tail hypothesis to the gender gap reversal, while the mean hypothesis appears to prevail in high …

the second generation -- women's daughters and sons. Additionally, gender gaps in property ownership induce allocative … over property. Gender gaps are smaller if joint ownership is taken into consideration, but still materially disadvantage … paper is an important step toward a better understanding of gender gaps in property ownership in Africa and outlines an …