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Long-term effect of international trade on the gender wage and educational gaps
Yamamura, Eiji - 2016
This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages …, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and … openness on the gender wage gap remained observable in later years (1980, 1990 and 2000), although it decreased in degree over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437033
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Impact of Industrialization on Relative Female Survival : Evidence from Trade Policies
Chakraborty, Tanika - 2012
This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son preference. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that households are more likely to have a male child in regions with higher trade openness relative to regions with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104670
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Male-female labor market participation and the extent of gender-based wage discrimination in Turkey
Günalp, Burak; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; Acar, Elif Öznur - 2015
A gender differential in wages is considered to be discriminatory if the differential cannot be explained by gender … differences in productivity. Numerous studies have been performed to measure the extent of gender wage discrimination in countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011306062
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Impact of industrialization on relative female survival : evidence from trade policies
Chakraborty, Tanika - 2012
This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son preference. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that households are more likely to have a male child in regions with higher trade openness relative to regions with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009549661
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Male-female labor market participation and the extent of gender-based wage discrimination in Turkey
Günalp, Burak; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; Acar, Elif Öznur - 2013
A gender differential in wages is considered to be discriminatory if the differential cannot be explained by gender … differences in productivity. Numerous studies have been performed to measure the extent of gender wage discrimination in countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010207295
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What happened to real earnings in Egypt, 2008 to 2009?
Cichello, Paul L.; Abou-Ali, Hala; Marotta, Daniela - In: IZA journal of labor & development 2 (2013), pp. 1-38
Nominal earnings in Egypt did not respond to the increase in inflation between February 2008 and February 2009, resulting in a 12.3 (9) percent decline in average (median) real earnings among 25 to 60 years old workers. Changes in earnings differ significantly by groups: (i) those with higher...
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Calorie consumption and wages : evidence from India's labor market
Kumar, Kaushalendra; Singh, Ashish; Kumar, Santosh; … - 2025
Using nationally representative data from India, this study estimates the effect of calorie intake on wages. To account for endogeneity and heterogeneity, we apply Instrumental Variable and Instrumental Variable Quantile Regression methods. Results suggest that higher calorie consumption...
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Effects of parental health shocks on children's school achievements : A register-based population study
Aaskoven, Maiken Skovrider - 2020
cancers. We observe different outcomes across children's gender and age, but no effects of family-related resilience factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828366
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Early Life Circumstances and Life Cycle Labor Market Outcomes
Flores, Manuel - 2015
We investigate how early life circumstances — childhood health and socioeconomic status (SES) — are associated with labor market outcomes over an individual's entire life cycle. A life cycle approach provides insights not only into which labor market outcomes are associated with adverse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019359
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Early life circumstances and life cycle labor market outcomes
Flores, Manuel; Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Kalwij, Adriaan - 2015
We investigate how early life circumstances - childhood health and socioeconomic status (SES) - are associated with labor market outcomes over an individualś entire life cycle. A life cycle approach provides insights not only into which labor market outcomes are associated with adverse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303594