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11 publications found, searching for 'Tamar Khitarishvili '

• Research Project Report
  September 17, 2019

  Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Impacts of Improving Physical and Social Infrastructure

  Ajit Zacharias, Thomas Masterson, Kijong Kim, Tamar Khitarishvili, Michalis Nikiforos, and Fernando Rios-Avila
  Abstract

  Feminist economics has long emphasized the role of physical and social infrastructure as determinants of the time women spend on household production (the provision of unpaid domestic services and care)….more

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• Research Project Report
  August 08, 2018

  The Measurement of Time and Consumption Poverty in Ghana and Tanzania

  Ajit Zacharias, Thomas Masterson, Kijong Kim, Tamar Khitarishvili, and Fernando Rios-Avila
  Abstract

  Time constraints that stem from the overlapping domains of paid and unpaid work are of central concern to the debates surrounding the economic development of developing countries in general and…more

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• Working Paper No. 899
  January 12, 2018

  Gender Pay Gaps in the Former Soviet Union: A Review of the Evidence

  Tamar Khitarishvili
  Abstract

  The goal of this paper is to examine the patterns and movements of the gender pay gaps in the countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU) and to place them…more

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• Working Paper No. 858
  January 12, 2016

  Gender Dimensions of Inequality in the Countries of Central Asia, South Caucasus, and Western CIS

  Tamar Khitarishvili
  Abstract

  The collapse of the Soviet Union initiated an unprecedented social and economic transformation of the successor countries and altered the gender balance in a region that counted gender equality as…more

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• Working Paper No. 836
  April 13, 2015

  Direct Estimates of Food and Eating Production Function Parameters for 2004–12 Using an ATUS/CE Synthetic Dataset

  Kijong Kim, Tamar Khitarishvili, and Fernando Rios-Avila
  Abstract

  This paper evaluates the presence of heterogeneity, by household type, in the elasticity of substitution between food expenditures and time and in the goods intensity parameter in the household food…more

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• Working Paper No. 806
  May 30, 2014

  The Great Recession and Unpaid Work Time in the United States

  Kijong Kim and Tamar Khitarishvili
  Abstract

  Poverty status is an important factor influencing household production and the unpaid work time associated with it due to the role of household production as a coping strategy in mitigating…more

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• Working Paper No. 768
  July 02, 2013

  Evaluating the Gender Wage Gap in Georgia, 2004–2011

  Tamar Khitarishvili
  Abstract

  This paper evaluates the gender wage gap among wage workers along the wage distribution in Georgia between 2004 and 2011, based on the recentered influence function (RIF) decomposition approach developed…more

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• Working Paper No. 765
  May 14, 2013

  The Economic Crisis of 2008 and the Added Worker Effect in Transition Countries

  Tamar Khitarishvili
  Abstract

  Following the financial crisis of 2008, transition countries—the economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union—experienced an increase in female labor force participation rates and a decrease…more

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• Working Paper No. 641
  December 02, 2010

  Disaggregating the Resource Curse

  Tamar Khitarishvili and Timothy Azarchs
  Abstract

  The hypothesis of the natural resource curse has captivated the economics profession, and since the mid-1990s has generated a large body of policymaking initiatives aimed at dispelling the curse. In…more

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• Working Paper No. 608
  August 09, 2010

  Assessing the Returns to Education in Georgia

  Tamar Khitarishvili
  Abstract

  The economic returns to education in transition countries have been extensively evaluated in the literature. The present study contributes to this literature by estimating the returns to education in Georgia…more

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• Working Paper No. 577
  September 21, 2009

  Explaining the Gender Wage Gap in Georgia

  Tamar Khitarishvili
  Abstract

  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…more

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