Immigrants. Following the "epidemiological approach", we relate the probability of being employed in Italy for immigrant women …

Immigrants. Following the “epidemiological approach”, we relate the probability of being employed in Italy for immigrant women …

be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and …, preventing women from actually moving abroad. …

the separate effects of equal opportunities for women in the labor market and improved contraception on female education …

percent working to the disadvantage of women. If we assume that the dominant role in family- and child-care is taken up by the … company characteristics nor by the dominant role of women in care for the household and children and could actually be due to … wage discrimination against women …

We construct a new dataset on the presence of women on central bank monetary policy committees for a set of 103 … countries, over the period 2002-2016. We document an increasing share of women in monetary policy committees, which is mainly … associated with a higher overall presence of women in central banks and less so with other institutional factors or country …

Women are underrepresented in economics. This underrepresentation concerns undergraduates, postgraduates, and tenured … fragmented empirical literature on women's underrepresentation in economics. The model is based on Akerlof's and Kranton's (2002 …) model of identity. The question of whether women's underrepresentation may be suboptimal and a cause for concern is also …