gender differences in the labour market. We find that household characteristics, rather than alternative explanations such as …With the use of panel data constructed from the 1995 and 1997 Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys, this paper … explores the sectoral reallocation of labour by gender. In Bulgaria, men and women started the transition on an almost equal …

shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … largest for lower-skilled individuals. We show that domestic manufacturing employment declined much more in countries that saw …

unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal wage employment, and self employment. The parameters of the model … self employment while increasing average wages in the formal and informal sectors …

Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time … (1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection …-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the one observed in the data, which is mainly due to large positive selection of women …

This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of domestic workers' employment using a unique micro-level dataset … on Lebanese households drawn from the National Household Budget Survey (2005) conducted by Central Administration of … Statistics (CAS). Controlling for household, household head, dwelling, and regional characteristics, we find that the probability …

distribution of households according to the share of income earned by the wife, which they attribute to the existence of a gender …

We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international …, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and … earnings of young adult males. Consistent with Becker's model of household specialization, shocks to male's relative earnings …

We document how differences in labour demand by gender explain the contrasting evolutions of labour force participation … occupational segregation by gender. As a result, the large job losses in middle-paid occupations during the Great Recession … mobility of men and women responded to these shocks.We find that the labour force participation of women increased considerably …

systems unless there is an offsetting increase in employment rates. This is especially true for older workers whose employment …