Papers by Tamar Khitarishvili
SSRN Electronic Journal
The goal of this paper is to examine the patterns and movements of the gender pay gaps in the cou... more 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 in the context of advanced economies. We survey over 30 publications and conduct a meta-analysis of this literature. Gender pay gaps in the region are considerable and above the levels observed in advanced economies. Similar to advanced economies, industrial and occupational segregation widens the gaps in the FSU countries, whereas gender differences in educational attainment tend to shrink them. However, a much higher proportion of the gaps remain unexplained, pointing toward the role of unobserved gender differences related to actual and perceived productivity. Over the last 25 years, the gaps contracted in most FSU countries, primarily due to the reduction in the unexplained portion. Underlying the contraction at the mean are different movements in the gap across the pay distribution. Although the glass-ceiling effect has diminished in some FSU countries, it has persisted in others. We investigate the reasons underlying these findings and argue that the developments in the FSU region shed new light on our understanding of the gender pay gaps.
IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2016
This paper examines the contraction in the gender wage gap in Georgia between 2004 and 2011. Behi... more This paper examines the contraction in the gender wage gap in Georgia between 2004 and 2011. Behind the continuous decline at the mean lies a change in the shape of the gender wage gap across the wage distribution before and after the 2008 crisis. Before the crisis, the growth in state sector wages and the expansion of construction and transport industries contributed to these developments. After the crisis, it was the contraction of male-dominated industries and potentially the female added-worker effect. In the analysis, we employ the decomposition approaches proposed in Firpo et al. (Decomposing wage distributions using influence function projections, 2007) and Ñopo (The Rev of Econ and Stat 90:290-299, 2008).
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
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Agricultural Outlook Forum …, 2001
By Glenn D. Pederson and Tamar Khitarishvili; TRADE AND MACROECONOMIC POLICY: WHAT DOES IT MEAN F... more By Glenn D. Pederson and Tamar Khitarishvili; TRADE AND MACROECONOMIC POLICY: WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR FARMERS AND LENDERS? ... FOR FARMERS AND LENDERS? Glenn D. Pederson and Tamar Khitarishvili. ...
Staff Papers, 1997
The objective of this paper is to explore commercial bank participation in the farm real estate l... more The objective of this paper is to explore commercial bank participation in the farm real estate loan market. We do that primarily through a review and analysis of recent bank survey and secondary data. We briefly consider some of the changes in economic conditions (eg, farm income ...
2002 Annual meeting, July 28-31, Long Beach, CA, 2002
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Replaced with revised version of paper 10/22/02.
By Glenn D. Pederson and Tamar Khitarishvili; TRADE AND MACROECONOMIC POLICY: WHAT DOES IT MEAN F... more By Glenn D. Pederson and Tamar Khitarishvili; TRADE AND MACROECONOMIC POLICY: WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR FARMERS AND LENDERS? ... FOR FARMERS AND LENDERS? Glenn D. Pederson and Tamar Khitarishvili. ...
In times of economic crises, household production, and the unpaid work time associated with it, c... more In times of economic crises, household production, and the unpaid work time associated with it, can serve as a coping mechanism for absorbing the impact of shocks. Evidence from the Great Recession has been supportive of this possibility, and has revealed the presence of gender asymmetries stemming from men having experienced disproportionately high job losses. In this paper, we further examine the presence of poverty-based asymmetries in the unpaid work time changes of men and women given that the role of household production as a coping mechanism may vary by poverty status. We use the 2003-12 American Time Use Survey and conduct the Oaxaca Blinder decompositions of the changes in the unpaid work time along the business cycle.
This paper evaluates the presence of heterogeneity, by household type, in the elasticity of subst... more 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 and eating production functions. We use a synthetic dataset constructed by statistically matching the American Time Use Survey and the Consumer Expenditure Survey. We establish the presence of heterogeneity in the elasticity of substitution and in the intensity parameter. We find that the elasticity of substitution is low for all household types.
Poverty status is an important factor influencing household production and the unpaid work time a... more 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 the impact of economic downturns. In this paper, we examine the presence of poverty-based asymmetries in the unpaid work time changes of men and women during the Great Recession. Using the 2003-12 American Time Use Survey, we find that these changes indeed varied by poverty status. In particular, nonpoor women drove the reduction in unpaid work time among women. Among men, the lack of the change in unpaid work time masked the increase in poor men's time and the decrease in nonpoor men's time. Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions of the changes in the unpaid work time reveal that shifts in own and spousal employment status largely account for the gender-based differences in these changes, while shifts in the household structure partially explain the poverty-based differences. Nevertheless, sizable portions of the changes in time use remain unexplained by the shifting individual and household characteristics. The latter finding supports the hypothesis of poverty-based variation in the unpaid work time adjustments in that poor and nonpoor individuals appeared to have responded to the recession in different ways.
Following the financial crisis of 2008, transition countries experienced an increase in female la... more Following the financial crisis of 2008, transition countries experienced an increase in female labor force participation rates and a decrease in male labor force participation rates, in part because male-dominated sectors were hit the hardest. These developments have prompted many to argue that women have been spared the full-blown effects of the crisis. In this paper, we critically evaluate this claim by investigating the extent to which the increase in the female labor force participation rate may have reflected a distress labor supply response to the crisis. We use the data on the 28 countries of the transition region assessed in the 2010 Life in Transition Survey. We find the presence of the female added worker effect, driven by married 45-to 54-
Working Papers, Jan 1, 1997
Initially, we explore the attitudes and perceptions of farmers and low farm profitability as pote... more Initially, we explore the attitudes and perceptions of farmers and low farm profitability as potential constraints to rural financial intermediation and investment in agriculture. As part of this discussion we consider what is factual about the "access to credit problem." Second, we summarize ...
Rev. version of a paper presented at the …, Jan 1, 2000
Publikationsansicht. 6629672. Efficiency and economics of scale and scope of Polish cooperative b... more Publikationsansicht. 6629672. Efficiency and economics of scale and scope of Polish cooperative banks / (2000). Khitarishvili, Tamar. Abstract. Thesis (MS (Plan B))--University of Minnesota, 2000.. Includes bibliographical references. Details der Publikation. ...
Unpublished manuscript, Jan 1, 2008
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