labor and tackle the gender employment gap, but they are not sufficient for reducing the gender pay gap … that the payroll tax cut generates long-lasting growth in female employment, reduces the time spent on welfare, and spurs … business growth, without crowding out male employment. By contrast, the tax cut does not raise net wages, suggesting that tax …

show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to …We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian …

the motherhood employment gap across 186 European NUTS2 regions (over 29 countries) for the 2002-2016 period. The gender … employment, suggesting that non-traditional gender norms mediate on the employment gender gap mainly via motherhood …Using individual-level data from the European Social Survey, we study the relevance of gender norms in accounting for …

gains are similar by gender and age, but they are marginally higher for health than for business or technology and trades …

Do knowledge intense jobs exhibit lower gender gaps in wages? Here we use a linked employeremployee dataset of the … entire Brazilian formal labor force to study the relationship between gender wage gaps and the knowledge intensity of … industries and occupations. We find that employees in high-skilled occupations and industries experience lower gender wage gaps …

We explore whether there is a gender wage gap in one of the largest EU online labor markets, PeoplePerHour. Our unique … final agreement between employers and successful candidates. Using Heckman and OLS estimation methods we provide empirical … evidence for a statistically significant 4% gender wage gap among workers, at the project level. We also find that female …

; and the distinction between self-employment by necessity and self-employment as a calling. The article devotes special …

policy and institutional factors that explain the share of self-employment across European countries. It looks at the … aggregate share of self-employed as well as its breakdown by age, skill and gender. The generosity of unemployment benefits, and … self-employed in European countries. No significant relation could be identified between the stringency of employment …