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schooling and skills differ between men and women and how those differences relate to gender gaps in earnings across nine middle …
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relation to trends and patterns of demand for skills (Indonesia, Philippines, and Thailand; Vietnam and China; and Cambodia and …
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Most research on the economic payoffs of skills has used individuals' level of schooling attained -- typically years or level of education or training received?as a key proxy for skills. Such research has consistently found that individual returns to schooling are positive and that returns tend...
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses … data on young workers in their early years in the labor market to understand how gender wage gaps evolve over time, if at … new labor market entrants begin with little or no gender differences in earnings, but a wage gap gradually emerges over …
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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 …
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evolution was accompanied by a fall in the gender earnings gap; however, the difference in average wages of men and women is … still among the largest in comparison with countries in the Europe and Central Asia region. This study documents the gender … wage gap in Armenia through stylized facts and further investigates its sources. The paper finds that the gender wage gap …
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export-sector workers and more attractive to import-sector workers, eventually making workers unanimous either in favor of or …
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