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Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries …. This paper uses a unique data set with more than 20,000 adolescents in rural India to examine whether socioeconomic status … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude …
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We perform decompositions and regression analyses that test the routinization hypothesis and implied job polarization at the firm level. Prior studies have focused on the aggregate, industry or local levels. Our results for the abstract and routine occupation groups are consistent with the...
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Increased wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers is a stylized fact, which can be observed in many developed countries. Among the explanations advanced for this phenomenon is the increasing globalization, a skill-biased technical progress, restructuring of the firms, and last but...
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