The paper uses firm-level data to examine gender wage and productivity gaps in the Ethiopian manufacturing sector for the period 1996-2010. It investigates gender wage differentials between skilled and unskilled workers after controlling for factors affecting average wages. Our findings show...

Many studies have documented the missing relationship between PCE inflation and the labor market slack in the last 20 years. This paper first presents evidence of a strong sensitivity of price inflation to labor market tightness once we remove the late 90s from our sample and account for the...