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on the impact of COVID-19 and school closures on education in Latin America by exploiting harmonized microdata from a …
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crisis appears to have increased gender inequalities in both paid and unpaid work in the short-term. …
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key inputs in the technology to raise children, and therefore may affect the interplay between parenthood and labor market … of lower wages and weaker social protection, and a technology to produce child quality that combines time, material …
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-known effects on gender gaps in employment and earnings. We use an event study approach with retrospective data for 29 countries … into self-employment. Overall, our results suggest relevant changes in the allocation of talent caused by gender …
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The existence of large child penalties has been documented for multiple countries and time periods. In this paper, we assess to what extent marriage decisions and pregnancies (rather than live births), which tend to occur around the birth of the first child, explain part of the so-called...
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business survival. Overall, our results suggest relevant changes in the allocation of talent caused by gender differences in …
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In this paper we analyze the role of economic growth in the recent deceleration of female labor force participation (LFP) in Latin America. We study the relationship between the business cycle and female LFP by estimating fixed effects models, using data from harmonized national household...
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child penalty and the prevailing gender norms and family policies in the region. We find that motherhood reduces women … more conservative gender norms and less generous family policies are associated with larger differences between mothers …
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We assess whether motherhood could be the last hurdle to achieving gender equality in developing countries by exploring … the link between motherhood and the overall gender gap in the labor market for 14 Latin American countries over the last … source of income inequality between men and women. Motherhood explains 42% of the remaining gender gap and has progressively …
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In this paper we assess intergenerational mobility in terms of education and income rank in five Latin American … countries—Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, and Panama—by accounting for the education and occupation of both parents. Based on …% to 50%when besides of the education of parents we consider also their occupation. The increase is partic-ularly strong …
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