This research focuses on the role played by cultural norms in the long run persistence of gender inequalities. Cultural … norms about gender roles are considered to be endogenous and can generate gender inequality and low development traps …. Indeed, when the gender gap is internalized, it leads to inegalitarian views about gender roles. Due to these inegalitarian …

This paper focuses on the interaction between gender discrimination and household decisions. It develops a model with … services are assumed to reduce the time that parents spend on their children. The model shows that gender discrimination may … gender discrimination if the quality of childcare services is sufficiently high. In the decreasing part of this U …

gender discrimination in origin countries can be a push factor for women and therefore that a reduction in discrimination can … reduce the flow of female migrants. The other theory is that gender discrimination may create a " gender bias " in the … discrimination leads to an increase of skilled women migration. The paper also provides an original index of gender discrimination …

In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females …-paid jobs can be detected and quantiffed. We estimate the gender relative probability of getting any given job position for full …

Despite decades of gender-balanced recruitment and clear-cut criteria for promotion based on meritocracy, women in …

the observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less …

This paper focuses on the interaction between gender discrimination and household decisions. It develops a general … are assumed to decrease the time that parents spend on their children. The model shows that gender discrimination may … gender discrimination. An increase in the discrimination level implies a related decrease in fertility, women's participation …

Much of the gender inequality in the labour market is brought about by women's dual role as worker and (potential … first section discusses various gender-equality models which imply different ways of organising, for example, childcare …, parental leave and flexible working time. Sections two and three look at gender inequalities in labour market outcomes and …