Kenya for a randomly selected sample of poor daily income earners (such as market vendors), and collected a unique dataset … no interest and featured substantial withdrawal fees, take-up and usage was high among women. In addition, we find that … the savings accounts had substantial, positive impacts on productive investment levels and expenditures for women, but had …

This paper asks whether part-time work makes women happy. Previous research on labour supply has assumed that as … find decreases in working-hours bring about positive and significant improvement on well-being for women. …

Two decades of economic transition revealed that Russian women are on average less happy than men. This paper addresses …, with women, even if working, holding the main responsibility for housekeeping activities, is perceived as fair. Prime … results show that women's relative unhappiness is likely to be causes by their increasing earning powers with relative to men …

How great an effect does the structure of income taxes have on women's labour market participation? This issue is … light of trends in women's participation in the labour market and two key changes in the structure of taxation: a shift from …

Women's rising labor force participation since the 1960's was long seen as heralding decreasing gender inequalities …. According to influential social science writings this view has now to be revised; 'women friendly' policies bringing women into … the workforce are held to create major inequality tradeoffs between quantity and quality in women's jobs. Unintendedly …

-age population. Japan has been characterized by the least favorable work setting for women, as exemplified by the discontinuous … pattern of work among mothers, the large extent of wage gap between men and women, and the very low proportion of women … married women's labor force participation. Second, I will examine mothers' working pattern, especially focusing on the …

This paper investigates wage gaps between part- and full-time women workers in six OECD countries in the mid-1990s …-time workers. The paper finds a part-time wage penalty among women workers in all countries, except Sweden. Other than in Sweden …