participation. This is done by conditioning on the mortgage decision in a labour market participation equation for married women …

native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the supply of affordable household services, such … increase their labor supply, and ii) the effects were larger on skilled women whose labor supply was heavily constrained by … size of the household services sector and to an increase in the labor supply of women in high-earning occupations (of about …

Women are globally under-represented in top-tier jobs, and according to recent data, in 2013 only around 20 percent of … and rich data consistently find that women earn less than men (e.g. Weichselbaumer and Winter-Ebmer, 2005). Differences in … formal qualification levels between men and women have converged over the past decades (Goldin 2006) and cannot explain …

Women's labour market outcomes have improved substantially in the past decades, both in absolute terms and relative to … gender convergence' (Goldin 2014). Yet, gender gaps in earnings and leadership still persist. Women earn substantially less …

to further welfare losses over time. One hotly debated issue is that of the gender effect on business performance. Women … Lorenz (2015), in 2013 the average proportion of women on the corporate board of directors across 67 countries was only 10 ….3 per cent, although empirical evidence suggests that higher presence of women on corporate boards is often positively …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women … assimilation of immigrants. Immigrant women narrow the labor supply gap with native-born women with time in the United States, and …

Legalization of abortion in the 1970s represents a major cultural change: it gives women a higher degree of freedom to … analyzed through its direct consequences on fertility and fertility technology, primarily on women actually experiencing an … women that face abortion as an actual opportunity, without necessarily experiencing one. I focus on the indirect effect of …