Tackling the Global Profitarchy : Gender and the Choice of Business Sector
Sectoral segregation is often used to explain a large part of a well-documented gender earnings gap in business profits. Women tend to sort into different sectors than men, and the sectors dominated by women tend to be less profitable. This paper i...
Main Authors: | Goldstein, Markus, Gonzalez Martinez, Paula, Papineni, Sreelakshmi |
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/734371558715932769/Tackling-the-Global-Profitarchy-Gender-and-the-Choice-of-Business-Sector http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31747 |
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