implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The government and local labor bureaus have made …

We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret … these patterns using a simple employer search model. The model allows us to distinguish firms’ underlying gender preferences … from firms’ propensities to restrict their search to their preferred gender. The model also predicts that higher job skill …

This paper analyzes the relationship between time allocation decisions of the unemployed, gender, and regional …

lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest …

gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …

achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …

differences in achievement into gender differences in endowments and returns to IQ and non-cognitive factors. This descriptive … resources and take similar advantage of these resources. Our findings indicate that gender differences in resources with respect …

working conditions are only secondary factors. The relative exit rate by gender from engineering does not differ from that of …

We posit that historical resource scarcities played a role in the emergence of gender norms inimical to women that … historical availability of arable land, are statistically significantly negatively related to their present levels of gender … inequality, as gauged by the United Nations Development Programme’s Gender Inequality Index. …