from Protestant marriage registers of historical Kampala to investigate the hypothesis that African gender inequality and …-long transformation of Kampala involving a gender Kuznets curve. Men rapidly acquired literacy and quickly found their way into white …-collar (high-status) employment in the wage economy built by the Europeans. Women took somewhat longer to obtain literacy and …

Gender-based discrimination is a pervasive and costly phenomenon. To a greater or lesser extent, all economies present … a gender wage gap, associated with lower female labour force participation rates and higher fertility. This paper … discrimination. The model is calibrated to mimic the performance of the U.S. economy, including the gender wage gap and relative …

-cycle of the 1940 cohort. Conditioning solely on gender, our ex ante welfare analysis finds that women would fare better under … mutual consent whereas men would prefer a unilateral system. Once we condition not only on gender but also on initial … unilateral system as are the top two quintiles of women; the rest prefer mutual consent. We also find that although the change in …

. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the …Women born in 1935 went to college significantly less than their male counterparts and married women's labor force … LFP. To eliminate the education gender gap requires, on the other hand, for the psychic cost of obtaining higher education …

We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using a large longitudinal data set for …

This Paper analyses the gender wage gaps by education throughout the wage distribution in Spain. Quantile regressions … the selection bias is included for the group of less educated women. The Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition is then implemented … at each quantile in order to estimate the component of the gender gap not explained by differences in characteristics …

than women so that discrimination against women may explain part of the gender gap in unemployment rates in the …There is an enormous literature on gender gaps in pay and labour market participation but virtually no literature on … gender gaps in unemployment rates. Although there are some countries in which there is essentially no gender gap in …