although prison is associated with declining employment rates during the quarters leading up to women's incarcerations, it does … not appear to harm their employment prospects later on. In the short-term, we estimate that women's post-prison employment … undesirable signal in the labor market that reduces former female inmates' employment chances. Although incarcerated women …

women in 1990 underestimated the true, selection-corrected gap, i.e., the gap we would have expected to see had all of these … women been employed in 1990. In this paper, we use the NLSY97 to update his analysis. The observed median log wage gap … considerable extent by changes in the distribution of educational attainment across young white and black women. …

This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because … establishment as well as in combination with an establishment change. Women with children are 1.6 percentage points less likely … promoted than women without children; this is what we refer to as the family gap in climbing the career. We find that mothers …

to wage employment, women lost job opportunities in wage- and self-employment, and they experienced increases in unpaid … probit regressions based on repeated cross sections of the Philippine Labor Force Survey indicate that both men and women … experienced declines in the likelihood of employment, especially in 2008 and in manufacturing. While men's job losses were limited …

differentials between white non-Hispanic males and women, Hispanics and African-Americans. Women's and Hispanics' relative earnings …

factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men’s and women’s age …

increasing the women's bargaining power alters household expenditure patterns. Second, whether households allocate fewer … resources to daughters than to sons. Third, whether increasing the bargaining power of women reduces pro-boy discrimination. We … find that expenditure patterns do vary with proxies for women's bargaining power. Pro-boy discrimination is suggested by …

substantial differences in the role of self-employment among low-skilled workers across gender and nativity – women and immigrants … options and limited labor market opportunities in the wage/salary sector as motivating native born women to enter self-employment … the economic returns to business ownership among low-skilled workers and addresses the essential question of whether self-employment …

There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely … to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare …

We hypothesise that women's participation in wage (off-farm) work is reduced when their greater water needs due to the … participation of affected (pre-menopause) women by about 10 percentage points, a large effect. As expected, there is no adverse … causal impact of poor household access to water for women post-menopause, or for men, ceteris paribus. …