Over the past many decades, China's sex ratio at birth (SRB) has risen significantly. This trend can have serious … accordingly. This study examines the causes of imbalance in China’s SRB using data from the Sixth National Population Census of … China. The results reveal that the SRB in China has a positive spatial effect. Geographically, SRB is higher in eastern …

Research on the gender earnings divide so far mostly focuses on the gender gap in hourly wages which, due to its … snapshot nature, is inappropriate to capture the biographical dimension of gendered pay. With the 'gender lifetime earnings gap …, women accumulated 49.8 % less earnings than men. Thus, the GLEG is more than twice as high as the current German gender pay …

A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany … well as life-cycle and birth cohort effects, we go beyond conventional decomposition techniques of the average gender wage … gap. The paper provides some stylized facts of the level and dynamics of the gender wage gap from 1975-1995. The empirical …