indices related to socio-economic inequality, such as the Gini index, human development index, or gender inequality index … insignificant, indicating income inequality had little effect on students’ PISA performance. On the other hand, the gender … capital and competitiveness, and focus on decreasing gender disparity and the associated loss of achievement due to gender …

, 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 …

This book contributes to the understanding of gender and regional inequalities in developing countries. First, it deals … with social institutions related to gender inequality and proposes new composite indices to measure them. Using these … indices, some interesting empirical connections between social institutions related to gender inequality and several relevant …