We study the persistence of the gender unemployment gap in the Italian regions in the 1992-2009 period. Results from … unit-root tests analysis with structural break suggest that the process of gender catching-up in the unemployment rates is … labour markets. -- gender unemployment gap ; regional disparities ; unit-root tests with structural break …

Gender based taxation (GBT) has been recently proposed as a promising policy in order to close the gender gap, i ….e. promote gender equality and improve women's status in the labour market and within the family. We use a microeconometric model …

A growing number of academic studies are devoting their attention to the study of the gender wage gap. This paper …, Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis and quantile decomposition. Findings suggest that a gender gap in hourly wages exists …