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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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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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-farm employment and continued employment; and conducts the analysis by gender and rural/urban location. A significant share of the …-farm enterprises being more common in Nigeria and Tanzania. The population weighted cross-country gender difference in off …-farm employment and continued employment are country- and gender-specific, with demographic factors, occurrence of shocks, and job …
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The author uses quantile regression to document the evolution of the earnings structure of salaried and self-employed female workers in urban areas in three Latin American countries-Argentina, Brazil, and Costa Rica-after structural reforms were introduced. The analysis covers pre- and...
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Disasters in Bangladesh and protests elsewhere have created an intense debate about the value, particularly to women … gender-based earnings. The authors find large positive wage premiums and a closing of the male-female wage gap during the MFA …
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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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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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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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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 …
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