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About time: the narrowing gender wage gap in Austria
We examine the gender wage gap in Austria from 2005 to 2017 using data from EU-SILC. The raw gap of hourly wages declined from 18.6 log points in...
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Gender Gaps and Family Leaves in Latin America
Gender equality in the labor market remains a difficult challenge in Latin America and recent literature shows that child penalties play an important...
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Labour Market Flows and Gender Differentials in Urban Unemployment over the Pandemic
Utilising data from the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), we estimate quarterly changes in urban labour market flows over the period 2018–2022 and...
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The gender bias in regional councilors’ reelection in Italy
This study evaluates whether a gender bias exists in the reelection of regional councilors in Italy. A dataset of 4794 councilors elected since 1985...
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Implication of gender mainstreaming on policy-making for sustainable fisheries development in China
Currently, gender mainstreaming is widely recognized by the international community as an essential component of social development. Increasing...
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Cognitive and socioemotional skills and wages: the role of latent abilities on the gender wage gap in Peru
The literature provides evidence on the positive connection between cognitive test scores and higher wages. Fewer and newer studies have explored the...
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Gender gaps in ride-hail use in U.S. metropolitan areas
Ride-hailing has the potential to reduce gender inequities in transportation if its gender patterns were better understood. This study uses a U.S....
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Lee–Carter model: assessing the potential to capture gender-related mortality dynamics
We investigate the ability of the Lee–Carter model to effectively estimate the gender gap ratio (GGR), the ratio between the male death rates over...
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Gender Differences in Returns to Self-employment in India
This paper provides estimates of returns to education by nature of employment by gender from 1993–94 to 2017–18 and also separates returns from...
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Analyzing the Gender Gap in Poland and Italy, and by Regions
High-income inequality, accompanied by substantial regional differentiation, is still a great challenge for social policymakers in many European...
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Does Gender Matter? Examining the Impact of Coach Gender on Team Success: Evidence from the NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament
We examine the impact of coach gender on the probability that NCAA Division I women’s basketball teams advance to the end-of-year NCAA tournament....
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Pioneering Feminist Economics: Barbara Bergmann’s Contributions to Gender Issues
Barbara Bergmann’s exploration of gender issues, especially the intra-house division of labor and marriage theory, was a central focus in early...
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Gender tax difference in the U.S. income tax
Unmarried women face a significantly lower average federal income tax rate than unmarried men, 6.3% versus 10.9%. Some of the difference arises...
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Religion and Gender
This chapter reviews the literature on religion and gender differences in individual behaviors and socioeconomic outcomes. Results vary by country...
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Employment, Gender Gap, and the Mexican Industry: The Effect of COVID-19 on the Dynamic Structure and Recovery in the Labor Market
This chapter analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the dynamics and recovery of the Mexican labor market, identifying the economy’s...
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COVID-19, Gender, and Labor
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered simultaneously a global health crisis and a global economic crisis, which have further deepened existing...
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Full-Time and Part-Time Work and the Gender Wage Gap
Using hourly and weekly wages from the Canadian Labour Force Survey from 2000 until 2018, workers were separated into full-time and part-time and the...
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Gender equality within boards: comparing quota and soft law
In 2011, Britain and France introduced affirmative action policies aiming at improving board gender mix in listed companies. While the reforms were...
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Compulsory education and gender gaps in intrahousehold empowerment
This paper estimates the effects of China’s 1986 Compulsory Education Law (CEL) on gender gaps in intrahousehold empowerment. The analysis uses a...
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Child care costs, household liquidity constraints, and gender inequality
In a model with endogenous female labour supply and wages, we show that liquidity constraints that prevent households from buying child care generate...
