This study seeks to determine the effect on the gender employment gap and women's employment of the extension of … groups of women and men are compared. We use the national representative Viet Nam Household Living Standards Survey for 2008 … sector for women of childbearing age without infant children; however, this narrowing is very small. Industry …

Despite a sizeable literature on the labour market effects of maternity leave regulations on women in developed … countries, how these policies affect women's work in developing countries with a large informal sector remains poorly understood …. This study examines how extending the maternity leave requirement affects women's decisions to work in the informal or …

We study the roots of violence against women, and propose that it partly originates in cultural norms that derive from … large degree of spatial variation in both attitudes and actions of violence against women. Using rich individual survey and … high-resolution georeferenced data, we find systematically less violence against women in traditionally sea-fishing areas …

This paper investigates if residing in a joint family affects non-farm employment for married women in rural India. Our … estimates based on a longitudinal survey of over 27000 women conducted in 2005 and 2012, and using the conditional logistic … regression and instrumental variable approach suggest that living in a joint family lowers married women's non-farm employment by …

an event study method, we estimate the impact of the first childbirth on women's labour market participation. Our main …The impact of childbirth on women's employment has been discussed extensively in the context of developed countries …. Constraints on mothers' labour market participation and consequent fall in earnings are characterised as the 'motherhood penalty …