-marginal) switch to home production and the ensuing deadweight losses are large. Using a cross-country panel, we find that gender … differences in labour supply responses to tax policy can explain differences in aggregate labour supply and years of education …

sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women, and within each gender a distinction is made …). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are …

National Insurance Institute. The Paper focuses on gender differences in work history patterns and, within each gender …, breakdowns are provided by ethnic origin, marital status, age and education level. While most of the results are both expected …’s labour market attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater …

An alleged achievement of socialism was gender equality in the labour market. Has its collapse shattered this …

selection issues present in other studies on single-sex education. We find that one hour a week of single-sex education benefits … classes than their peers attending coeducational classes. We find no effect of single-sex education on the probability that a … female will take technical classes and there is no effect of single-sex education for males. Furthermore we are able to …

selection issues present in studies on single-sex education done on students in primary and secondary school. We find that one … hour a week of single-sex education benefits females: females are 7.5% more likely to pass their first year courses and … economics and business at university than females who studied in coed classes. There is evidence that single-sex education …

The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a … positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked … shaping gender differences in labor market outcomes across skills and countries. We use a simple multi-sector framework to …

-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on education outcomes at different points in time, namely in 1917 and in the …-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …