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This paper investigates gender inequality in vulnerable employment: forms of employment typically featuring high … from developing countries, we measure long-term trends, describe geographical patterns, and estimate correlates of gender … gender gap. Across countries, the gender gap is smaller in richer countries, with lower fertility rates, and more …
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The quality of match of three statistical matches used in the LIMTIP estimates for Argentina, Chile, and Mexico is described. The first match combines the 2005 Uso del Tiempo (UT 2005) with the 2006 Encuesto Annual de Hogares (EAH) for Argentina. The second match combines the 2007 Encuesta...
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described. In each case, the matches are of high quality, given the nature of the source datasets. -- Statistical Matching …
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This paper presents the quality analysis of the statistical matching conducted for a research study on household … statistical matching is to transfer household expenditure data from the HBS to the SILC to create synthetic data sets that have … of constrained statistical matching, using estimated propensity scores developed in Kum and Masterson (2010) to produce …
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Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The … experimental gender literature suggests several plausible behavioral explanations behind these differences, relating to gender … gender difference in average chosen tax rates in the performance conditions. We find that this gender difference is mainly …
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We show that Bertrand et al.'s (QJE 2015) finding of a sharp drop in the relative income distribution within married couples at the point where wives start to earn more than their husbands is unstable across different estimation procedures and varies across contexts. We apply the estimators by...
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This paper aims to analyze the hourly gender wage gap between men and women in Mexico for the period 2005-2020. To this …
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deficits are unevenly distributed by employment status, family type, and especially gender. Simulations of the impact of full …
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determined by personal circumstances that lie beyond the control of an individual, of which gender is one, as opposed to the … six birth cohorts and for female and male subsamples. Gender is revealed as the single most important circumstance … gender differences that cannot be attributed to personal effort alone. These results provide the basis for recommending ways …
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the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
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