-time jobs contributes to women's lower pay separately from gender differences in human capital attributes. … 1980 Women in Employment Survey) finds significant sample selection bias for women in full-time jobs. Part of the observed … differential between the hourly pay of full-timers and part-timers arises because of self-selection of women who can command higher …

The provision of subsidized child care may encourage women to participate in the paid labor force. This paper analyzes … the provision of high quality public day care in Sweden encourages the labor market activity of women with preschoolers …

women's and men's pay in Great Britain. It is decomposed into a gap attributable to gender differences in human capital … characteristics (such as education, work experience, and time spent out of employment by women), and a gap attributable to gender …For the first time, nationally representative data on women's employment histories are used to study the gap between …

British women in 1980 in terms of a number of demographic and economic variables are estimated by OLS. Marital status … best paying occupation, not necessarily that current or most recent, on the grounds that mature women workers are often … marital history, and fertility intentions have little or no explanatory power. Participation rates among women who are neither …

This paper presents a wage series for unskilled English women workers from 1260 to 1850 and compares it with existing … evidence for men. Our series cast light on long run trends in women’s agency and wellbeing, revealing an intractable, indeed … widening gap between women and men’s remuneration in the centuries following the Black Death. This informs several recent …

I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men … women dissatisfied with pay and promotion opportunities. I find that family-related constraints and dissatisfaction with … working conditions are only secondary factors. The relative exit rate by gender from engineering does not differ from that of …

This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of … when we control for municipality fixed effects as well as non-random sorting of women into municipalities using regression … discontinuity in gender-mixed electoral races decided by a narrow margin. The likelihood that a female mayor survives until the end …

immigrants. Using unique German survey data, the paper identifies marked gender differences in the effects of ethnic …. Assimilated immigrant women do better than those separated and marginalized, but those who develop an attachment to both cultures …