- the lifting of the Saudi women's driving ban - on women's employment by randomizing rationed spaces in driver's training … effects on employment are only observed among never-married and widowed women, who negotiate employment with their fathers … women's employment. They provide evidence that men's resistance to wives' employment poses a binding constraint to female …

opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively …

(elasticity +0.16) with no decrease or an increase in U.S. employment (elasticity +0.10, statistically imprecise) across several …

We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration … among natives. Next, we unpack the channels behind the political effects of immigration, distinguishing between economic and …

In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … non-citizens, we investigate whether the behavioral response to welfare reform differed by recency of immigration. Finally … employment and attachment to the labor market. TANF appears to have had a larger effect on the least educated native-born women …

, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and …

employment and retirement outcomes for older women. The spread of unilateral divorce, we find, was associated with cross … divorce significantly increases the probability of full-time employment later in life, and significantly decreases retirement … does not impact full-time employment after age 50 but is positively associated with investment in education post marriage …

Using the large variation in the inflow of immigrants across US states we analyze the impact of immigration on state … employment, average hours worked, physical capital accumulation and, most importantly, total factor productivity and its skill … existence of communities of immigrants before 1960, as instruments. We find no evidence that immigrants crowded-out employment …