Differences in gender-based labour market discrimination across countries imply that migration may affect husbands and … institutional mechanisms that achieve long-term commitment, the opposite may be true, particularly if women are specialized in … migrant women lead them to bear the double burden of market and household work. …

international migration from developing to developed countries. In addition, we look at the relationship between trade, development … and migration. Empirical studies focusing on international migration from Less Developed Countries (LDCs) are, so far …, very scarce. In this paper, we utilize a new dataset that is based on migration to Germany from 86 African and Asian …

host country (worker, refugee, and family reunification), ethnic networks, enclaves and other differences among ethnicities … migrants who arrive through family reunification are less likely to work full-time; refugees are also less self-employed. Those …

This paper provides a historical and geographical perspective on the composition of households in present-day Europe … recent increase in the proportion of one-person households been accompanied by any reduction in the variation within Europe … in the frequency of living alone, which remains much lower in Southern and parts of Eastern Europe than in Western Europe …

-collar (high-status) employment in the wage economy built by the Europeans. Women took somewhat longer to obtain literacy and …

within the family. The husband-wife household bargains over resource distribution, with each spouse's bargaining power … determined by his/her market income. Men are reluctant to grant women easy access to the labor market as, despite the obvious … income drag on family income, gender discrimination allows the male to benefit from greater bargaining power. In a model with …

We present a theoretical explanation of the gender wage gap that turns on the interaction between men and women in … households. In equilibria where men are over-represented in full-time work, we show that firms rationally choose to hire women …

analysis reveals that the crowding of women onto the lower rungs of academia is a strong determinant of their lower average … salary. This effect should be transitory as young women, now entering the profession, move up its ranks. We construct a rank …