, particularly those relating to the considerable amount of intermittent employment found amongst Israeli male workers. Also, women …’s labour market attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater …This study examines the extent, duration and timing of employment breaks amongst a large representative sample of …

. Our sample includes more than 12,000 men and 10,000 women, who all left school in 1992, in France. The wages and … educational achievements of individuals, as well as many aspects of family background, including birth order, number of sisters …

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

sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women, and within each gender a distinction is made …). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are …

. 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 … quantitative contributions of the many signifiant changes in the economic environment, family structure, and social norms that …

resource flows, such as childcare and eldercare, are particularly important between women and their parents, the family … opportunities and family ties of both partners affect these location choices. Surprisingly, married men live significantly closer to … their own parents than do married women, even if they have children, and this difference cannot be explained by differences …

Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper … investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process … their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …

goes up. The model sheds light on how marriage affects the returns to human capital for men and women. Absent marriage …, these returns are larger for women than for men but the opposite may occur if marriage prevails. Finally, it is shown that …In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities …

, if the market is subject to frictions. We extend the model to consider gender preferences which depend upon family … in a biased sex ratio that is socially inefficient, due to a congestion externality in the marriage market. Improvements … in selection techniques aggravate the inefficiency. These results are robust to allowing prices in the marriage market …