and child-rearing - a critical omission when analyzing gender differences in earnings. This paper constructs a better … can be generated using commonly available data on labor force participation rates by age and gender to gauge the … underestimate the contribution of gender differences in work experience in explaining the gender wage gap. …

Immigration continues to shape labor market dynamics, yet its gender-specific effects remain understudied. This study …, unemployment, wages, and hours worked. Using data from the March Current Population Survey (CPS) and its Annual Social and Economic …

Gender disparities in wages among professionals exist because women begin their professional careers making less than …

Women consistently work less in the labor market and earn lower wages than men. While economic empowerment of women is … educational attainment or skills. Gender is a further dimension in which the impacts of trade liberalization can differ. In a … globalizing world it is important to understand whether and how trade policy can contribute toward enhancing gender convergence in …

effects on male and female workers in India. It describes trends in employment shares and wages for female and male workers …

year after the first child is born, mothers’ annual earnings drop by 11% while men’s remain unchanged. The gender gap is …

the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …

We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads … conforming gender role attitudes to their peers', with the remaining half being explained by the spillover effect of peers' labor …