In many countries, a significant share of the gender earnings gap stems not only from firm's practices, or self …-selection into lower productivity jobs, but also from a lower participation among women. Inactivity around the age of motherhood is … market, as well as future earnings and promotions. In this paper, we discuss the major barriers reducing women's labor force …

, and policy from a gender perspective. The global perspective provided through themes and authors is a very useful … vision of what "the economy" is, and how it works. Gender scholars are on the forefront of developing better, more … broadly into the myriad ways that gender shapes and alters economic lives and illuminates complex facets of the economic and …

regulations affect the compliance level and other labor outcomes among men and women. Using information of the highly … increase among men, while informal wages decline. Among women, the compliance level declines jointly with informal wages. These … process than formal and informal women. …

to examine gender in the labour market, with specific reference to the South African Revenue Services (SARS) tax data …, with a focus on the gender dynamics of the labour market. Last, this paper identifies the areas in which the availability … of the SARS data has made new research possible, specifically in the gender dynamics of the South African labour market …

by 10.6 percentage points, whereas closing the gender gaps between men and women would lead to an increase of 2 …This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and ….5 percentage points. At the same time, closing both the gender and education gaps would raise the EU employment rate from 76% to 89 …