This paper examines the gender wage gap in Singapore's taxi industry using hourly income data for male and female taxi drivers in 7 million taxi rides from January 2009 to November 2010. Using a fixed-effects model, we find a 4.5% gender wage gap between female and male taxi drivers. We find...

This paper examines the gender wage gap in Singapore's taxi industry using hourly income data for male and female taxi drivers in 7 million taxi rides from January 2009 to November 2010. Using a fixed-effects model, we find a 4.5% gender wage gap between female and male taxi drivers. We find...

Standard neoclassical theory predicts that capital should flow from rich to poor countries. However, Lucas (1990) points out that these capital flows are actually very modest, and nowhere near the levels predicted by theory. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) now receives more foreign...