relationship between gender and poverty. These countries were chosen as they have, under the equal-sharing assumption, very … different gender distributions of poverty. … resources in the analysis of poverty. Most empirical studies of poverty, however, assume an equal sharing of resources between …

Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China's aging population …

-time jobs contributes to women's lower pay separately from gender differences in human capital attributes. … 1980 Women in Employment Survey) finds significant sample selection bias for women in full-time jobs. Part of the observed … differential between the hourly pay of full-timers and part-timers arises because of self-selection of women who can command higher …

The provision of subsidized child care may encourage women to participate in the paid labor force. This paper analyzes … the provision of high quality public day care in Sweden encourages the labor market activity of women with preschoolers …

This paper presents a wage series for unskilled English women workers from 1260 to 1850 and compares it with existing … evidence for men. Our series cast light on long run trends in women’s agency and wellbeing, revealing an intractable, indeed … widening gap between women and men’s remuneration in the centuries following the Black Death. This informs several recent …

I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men … women dissatisfied with pay and promotion opportunities. I find that family-related constraints and dissatisfaction with … working conditions are only secondary factors. The relative exit rate by gender from engineering does not differ from that of …

women's and men's pay in Great Britain. It is decomposed into a gap attributable to gender differences in human capital … characteristics (such as education, work experience, and time spent out of employment by women), and a gap attributable to gender …For the first time, nationally representative data on women's employment histories are used to study the gap between …

British women in 1980 in terms of a number of demographic and economic variables are estimated by OLS. Marital status … best paying occupation, not necessarily that current or most recent, on the grounds that mature women workers are often … marital history, and fertility intentions have little or no explanatory power. Participation rates among women who are neither …