This paper evaluates the gender wage gap among wage workers along the wage distribution in Georgia between 2004 and …

This paper evaluates gender wage differentials in Georgia between 2000 and 2004. Using ordinary least squares, we find … that the gender wage gap in Georgia is substantially higher than in other transition countries. Correcting for sample … industrial variables. We find that the gender wage gap in Georgia diminished between 2000 and 2004. …

present study contributes to this literature by estimating the returns to education in Georgia during the last transition … period 2000-04. We find very low returns to education in Georgia and little evidence of an increasing trend in the returns …. This picture contrasts with somewhat higher rates of return to education in the mid-1990s in Georgia and the recent …

both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …

in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in …

academia have been partially explained by "competitive pressures", which suggests a link between competition and cheating. In … no overall sex difference in cheating. However, the effect of competition on women's cheating behavior is entirely due to … of an individual to conduct a particular task and not sex that crucially affects the reaction to competition. Poor …

In recent years growing competition in the microfinance industry has been censured for multiple borrowing, default … crises, high interest rates and coercive recovery of loans. Using the Boone indicator as a measure for competition, our paper … investigates the impact of competition on microfinance institutions' (MFIs) outreach, financial performance and quality of loan …