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Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Mata, Dolores de la; … - 2021

-known effects on gender gaps in employment and earnings. We use an event study approach with retrospective data for 29 countries …

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Inequality in early care experienced by U.S. children

Flood, Sarah; McMurry, Joel; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, … - 2021

Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6, we quantify differences in American children's care experiences by socioeconomic status (SES), proxied primarily with maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children...

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Gender inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Berniell, Inés; Fernández, Raquel; Krutikova, Sonya - 2023

This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a dynamic perspective that highlights successes and...

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Gender differences in the skill content of jobs

Pető, Rita; Reizer, Balázs - 2021

There is significant heterogeneity in actual skill use within occupations even though occupations are differentiated by the tasks workers should perform during work. Using data on 12 countries which are available both in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies survey...

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Labor market competition and the assimilation of immigrants

Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan - 2021

In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage...

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Labor market competition and the assimilation of immigrants

Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan - 2021

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Intergenerational Transmission of Skills During Childhood and Optimal Public Policy

Casarico, Alessandra; Micheletto, Luca; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2021

The paper characterizes the optimal tax policy and the optimal quality of day care services in a OLG model with warm-glow altruism where parental choices over child care arrangements affect the probability that the child becomes a high-skilled adult in a type-specific way. With respect to...

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Intergenerational Transmission of Skills During Childhood and Optimal Public Policy

Casarico, Alessandra; Micheletto, Luca; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2012

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Wage inequality consequences of expanding public childcare

Riedel, Lukas - 2024

This paper assesses the impact of a large expansion of public childcare in Germany on wage inequality. Exploiting regional variation in childcare supply over the 1990s, I show that in regions with stronger increases in childcare, wage inequality among women increased less strongly compared to...

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Implications of the changing nature of work for employment and inequality in Ghana

Gradín, Carlos; Schotte, Simone - 2020

in earnings inequality in Ghana between 2006 and 2017, a period in which there was a substantial transformation of the … context of a stagnant manufacturing sector and an oil-based expansion. We show that there was an initial decline in earnings … followed by a substantial increase in earnings inequality in which the skill premium continued to fall at a slower pace and …

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