rising wages of women should have lead to a large rise in husband’s leisure. This paper argues that home production and …

evolution over time of the employment rates of women and of the young, and of hours worked in OECD countries. Beyond controlling … do all this we find that culture still matters for women employment rates and for hours worked. However, policies and … appear to be important in explaining the employment rate of the young. In the case of women employment rates, the policy …

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. …

substantial differences in the role of self-employment among low-skilled workers across gender and nativity – women and immigrants … substantially more financially rewarding option for most women. These findings raise the question of why low-skilled women enter … options and limited labor market opportunities in the wage/salary sector as motivating native born women to enter self …

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. …

of labour increased dramatically in Tunisia as women entered the labour market. This allowed importable employment to be …