Analyzing gender gaps of unemployed job-seekers, this study uniquely complements the broad literature focussing … predominantly on gender gaps of employed workers. I consider a broad range of labor market outcomes, and disentangle the factors … importance. Married women and those with young children perform particularly bad compared to men. High unexplainable gender gaps …

This paper assesses gender differences in the effects of adverse conditions at labor-market entry in a developing … find that men who faced higher unemployment rates at ages 18-20 suffer a negative effect on employment at ages 27-30. In … labor market conditions are correlated to more egalitarian perceptions about gender roles later in life. …

discouraged worker effect arising from either of two mechanisms: (i) unexplained gender wage gap, or (ii) degree of …

Job loss leads to persistent adverse labor market outcomes, but assessments of gender differences in labor market … recovery are lacking. We utilize plant closures in Denmark to estimate gender gaps in labor market outcomes and document that … women face an increased risk of unemployment and lose a larger share of their earnings in the two years following job …

Using micro-data from the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), this paper seeks to answer how age, gender and … correlated with pay. Age, gender and parenthood are strongly correlated with both pay and employment. The weak link between …

Focused on human capital, economists typically explain about half of the gender earnings gap. For a national sample of … preferences regarding family, career, and jobs. Those two sources of gender heterogeneity account for a quarter of the "explained …

In this paper we provide first systematic evidence on the gender disparities in the labor market in Swaziland, drawing …

Despite considerable changes in the gender gap regarding educational qualifications and labor force participation, the … abilities collected from survey of a large sample of Danish managers. We develop measures for gender stereotype attitudes and … each other and differ by gender. We find that especially female C-level managers differ substantially from managers at …