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Using a two-stage decomposition technique, this paper analyzes the role of occupational segregation in explaining the probability of women vis-'a-vis men of finding high-paying jobs over the life-cycle. Jobs are classified as highly-remunerated if their compensation exceeds a threshold, which is...
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, permitting us to construct gender- and education-specific age-wage profiles, as well as measures of life cycle inequality within …- and between-education groups and gender. Although common within-group time effects are shown to be a key driver of labor … protected from the lower skill prices of the 1970s. The gender wage gap is found to increase sharply across the distribution in …
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UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti …
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This paper examines the factors influencing the gender wage gap by using an unbalanced crosscountry aggregated panel … the gender wage gap regardless of a country's development stage. While having more children widens the gender wage gap, as … participation by women seems to narrow the gender wage gap, probably due to the number of female labor market entrants taking up …
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"This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for … women in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would … have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila sector not existed. Of this increase in poverty, 0.35 percentage …
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