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  • How Have Gender Gaps in the Colombian Labor Market Changed during the Economic Recovery? (English)

    This paper analyzes gender gaps in the Colombian labor market, with a particular focus on the impact of the COVID-19 shock and the economic recovery. Using household survey and administrative data, the...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10605 Document Date: November 14, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Davalos,Maria Eugenia,Londono Aguirre,Diana Isabel,Medina Gaspar,Daniel Santiago

  • Preferences for Wage Discrimination against Women (English)

    This study demonstrates systematic bias against women in public perceptions of the fairness of wages. In nationally representative survey experiments across more than 70,000 individual vignettes posed...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10548 Document Date: August 21, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Seitz,William Hutchins

  • Предпочтения в отношении дискриминации женщин в оплате труда (Russian)

    Данное исследование демонстрирует систематическое предубеждение в отношении женщин в общественном мнении о справедливости заработной платы. В общенациональных репрезентативных экспериментах по опросу касательно...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS01548 Document Date: August 21, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Seitz,William Hutchins

  • Ayollarga nisbatan ish haqini kamsitish uchun imtiyozlar (Uzbek)

    Ushbu tadqiqot ish haqining adolatliligi to`g`risidagi jamoatchilik fikrida ayollarga nisbatan tizimli e`tiqodini namoyish qiladi. Markaziy Osiyoning uchta davlatida 4500 respondentga taqdim etilgan 70...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10548 Document Date: August 21, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank

  • Gender Wage Gap in Thailand (English)

    The gender wage gap in Thailand is much less significant than in most countries in the world. The average hourly wage among female workers, in fact, slightly surpasses that of males. This highly equitable...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 175884 Document Date: September 1, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank

  • Trade and Female Labor Participation : Stylized Facts Using a Global Dataset (English)

    Using a cross-section of more than 29,000 manufacturing firms in 64 developing and emerging countries from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys, this paper assesses whether trading firms have a female labor...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9098 Document Date: December 26, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Rocha,Nadia,Winkler,Deborah Elisabeth

  • Expectations Set High : Understanding Reservation Wages in North Macedonia (English)

    The objectives of this study are to understand the determinants of reservation wages and measure the gap between reservation and market wages in North Macedonia. The study makes use of recently collected...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 142162 Document Date: September 25, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Petreski,Marjan,Oviedo Silva,Ana Maria,Cancho,Cesar A.

  • Twenty Years of Wage Inequality in Latin America (English)

    This paper documents an inverse U-shape in the evolution of wage inequality in Latin America since 1995, with a sharp reduction starting in 2002. The Gini coefficient of wages increased from 42 to 44 between...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8995 Document Date: September 3, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Messina,Julian,Silva,Joana C. G.

  • What Explains Latin America's Low Share of Industrial Employment ? (English)

    This paper investigates the relative importance of different channels in explaining the low share of industrial employment in Latin America relative to the economies that employ a large share of the workforce...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8791 Document Date: March 25, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sinha,Rishabh

  • Occupational Segregation and Declining Gender Wage Gap : The Case of Georgia (English)

    This paper examines the role of industrial and occupational segregation in explaining the gender wage gap and its evolution in Georgia between 2004 and 2015. It first documents the declining trends observed...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8583 Document Date: September 13, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Khitarishvili,Tamar,Rodriguez Chamussy,Lourdes,Sinha,Nistha

  • Occupational Segregation and Declining Gender Wage Gap : The Case of Georgia (English)

    This paper examines the role of industrial and occupational segregation in explaining the gender wage gap and its evolution in Georgia between 2004 and 2015. It first documents the declining trends observed...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 131474 Document Date: September 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Khitarishvili,Tamar,Rodriguez Chamussy,Lourdes,Sinha,Nistha