This paper looks at the gender wage gap throughout the transition from communism to capitalism and throughout a time of … participation for women. Although the regime was formally egalitarian, the gender attitudes were conservative and the raw gender … wage gap was as large as 41% at the end of the communist period in Estonia. The large gender wage gap under communist rule …

Our paper makes a first attempt to address the impact of skills and skill use in the analysis of the gender wage gap … with regard to wage regressions of men as well as women. When we take skills into account in the gender wage gap analysis …, the unexplained part of the gender wage gap is reduced by almost 4 percentage points along the whole wage distribution …

This paper studies the effect of firms'export activity on the gender wage gap among its workers. Using matched employer …, which reinforces female comparative advantage and reduces (widens) the gender wage gap in white-collar (blue …

empirically investigate the dynamics and drivers of gender gaps in employment rates, wages and workhours during the pandemic …. Relying on Estonian Labour Force Survey data, we document that the pandemic has, if anything, reduced gender inequality in all … - rising as infections mounted and declining as the first wave flattened - overall, the pandemic did not exacerbate gender gaps …

gender income inequalities in seven Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and … insurance contributions on an individual basis according to each countrys rules. Then, we compare gender income ratios based on … the distribution, tax-benefit systems significantly reduce gender income disparities in most countries due to the effect …

This paper surveys gender wage gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent to … second and the third. The gender wage gap remains largely unexplained after controlling for different combinations of socio … middle of the wage distributions than the extremes, possibly due to a gender-equalizing effect of the minimum wage. Moreover …

The comovement between gender gaps in hours and wages across countries and skills reveals the presence of net demand … forces shaping gender differences in labor market outcomes. This paper links the rich pattern of variation in gender gaps to … gender bias in labor demand can be decomposed into measurable within- and between-industry components. Using comparable micro …

labor market, according to gender, across four Latin American countries. We find that information and communication … for both men and women. However, there is a significant gender gap that favors men on the STEM returns. There is also a … sizable gender gap regarding the amount of skills accumulated by gender. Through an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, we estimate …

Registry in Chile. The findings reveal a significant gender gap associated with childbirth, which more than doubles in the … presence of childhood disability: four years after childbirth, the gender gap in employment increases from 15% to 36% when the … child has a disability. Specifically, childhood disability leads to parental specialization, creating an intra-gender gap …

We investigate differences in earnings penalties associated with working from home (WFH) between groups of gender and …