This paper examines salary gaps by gender and nationality at the World Bank Group between 1987 and 2015 using a unique … three main findings. First, 76 percent of the $27,400 salary gap across the average male and female staff at the World Bank … Group can be attributed to composition effects, whereby men entered the World Bank Group at higher paid positions …

main effect. They test the theory using the World Val-ues Survey as a source of proxies for morality. Using their preferred …

rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two …

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what quot;povertyquot; means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more … the early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world …

quality, social distance, and economic indicators using data from the World Values Survey. The results obtained indicate that …

regulatory, supervisory authorities, are now available to researchers, and policymakers around the world. The data cover such …

The authors address two questions: What happens to stock market size, liquidity, volatility, and integration with world …