This study seeks to determine the effect on the gender employment gap and women's employment of the extension of … extensions of maternity leave and the gender employment gap in Viet Nam. The findings show that, on average, the new law did not … exacerbate the gender employment gap, and there was a narrowing of the gap in the formal jobs sector compared to the waged jobs …

Using decomposition methods, we analyse the role of the changing nature of work in explaining changes in employment …), and to jobs demanding routine manual and cognitive tasks (services and sales). Changes in occupational earnings have had … premium. Inequality reductions since the 2000s are explained by a fall in earnings in the top percentiles of the distribution …

of employment, but is also a constraining factor for economic development worldwide. While there is a sizeable pool of … literature on the underlying barriers to female employment, it remains unclear how these barriers play out across different world …