fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender composition of employment. We show that contractionary non-fiscal shocks … lead to man-cessions, i.e. employment falls and more strongly so for men. By contrast, an expansionary fiscal shock … predominantly raises the employment of women. Taken together, these results imply a trade-off dilemma for policy that seeks to …

explores the sectoral reallocation of labour by gender. In Bulgaria, men and women started the transition on an almost equal … gender differences in the labour market. We find that household characteristics, rather than alternative explanations such as … differences in individual characteristics or pure gender discrimination, better explain the observed gender differences in labour …

Using data from the 2002 LFS, we examine the impact of disability on labour market outcomes by gender. Our results … indicate that substantial differences in both the likelihood of employment and levels of earnings exist, despite several years …’ for disability is greater for women than for men. Using the Baldwin and Johnson (1992) methodology, we find the employment …

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …

We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of …

We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference …

and a longitudinal household survey from 16 representative provinces to estimate the employment effects of minimum wage …-level data, we present evidence that minimum wage changes have significant adverse effects on employment in the Eastern and …

This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the … period 1988-2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment, there are … long-run relationships for the aggregate output with non-agricultural employment and sectoral employment levels for seven …