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, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and …This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages … openness on the gender wage gap remained observable in later years (1980, 1990 and 2000), although it decreased in degree over …
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Men in low-income countries invest considerably more years in school than women. From low- to high-income countries …, women's years of schooling increase faster than men's, so that the gender gap in years of schooling declines. In this work … can reconcile the common decline of both gender gaps …
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persistence using the Turkish Adult Education Survey (2012). Prior to the reform there is a gender gap in the association of … points, respectively. The gender gap in intergenerational education transmission has decreased by 8 percentage points in the …We analyze the impact of an increase in compulsory schooling policy on the gender gap in intergenerational educational …
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, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and …This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages … openness on the gender wage gap remained observable in later years (1980, 1990 and 2000), although it decreased in degree over …
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of education inequality measures across age groups allows us to assess the effect of inter-generational education …
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Consider a model with two types of jobs. The profitability of promoting a worker to a fast-track job depends not only on his or her observable talent, but also on incontractible effort. We investigate whether self-fulfilling expectations may lead to higher promotion standards for women. If...
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pt. 1. Historical perspectives -- pt. 2. Theoretical developments -- pt. 3. A fresh look at households -- pt. 4. Labour market debates -- pt. 5. Lessons from the laboratory -- pt. 6. Institutions matter.
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