Until the early decades of the 20th century, women spent more than 60% of their prime-age years either pregnant or … nursing. Since then, the introduction of infant formula reduced women's comparative advantage in infant care, by providing an … associated with women's reproductive role. We explore the hypothesis that these developments enabled married women to increase …

-Mao reforms in China to estimate the effects of total income and sex-specific income on sex ratios of surviving children. The … survival rates for girls. Moreover, increasing the mother's income increases educational attainment for all children, while …

We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using a large longitudinal data set for … Portugal. Female managers can protect and mentor female employees by paying them higher wages than male-led firms would do. We … find that females can enjoy higher wages in female-led firms, the opposite being true for males. In both cases is a higher …

produced children is the same as among their parents. In such a society, cloning has disappeared. If the distribution of genes …

We model educational investment, wages and employment status (full-time, part-time or non-participation) in a …

vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher … wages. In some countries where labour markets are characterized by employment growth, skill shortages and a good match … case in point. Little attention has been given to examining the success of vocational education in raising the wages of …

appears that there is more than one way to do it. The proposed methodology is applied to the analysis of wages of …

Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new …