low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children …. Among families with at least one child we identify the average causal effect of an additional child on mother's employment … to be -7.1 percentage points. However, we find no effect of additional children on female employment among families with …

wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little impact on … the employment rate of men, but led to a sizable drop in the male wage. We show that the near-zero correlation between …

account for women who select into employment due to having a college education, which we call college-induced selection into … employment (CISE). We find that women are, on average, more than 17 percentage points more likely to be employed due to having a …

-random selection into employment but selection plays no role later in life. Policy options for closing the remaining gap are considered. …

effect on employment of mothers who used to work outside the home before giving birth and might prevent some mothers from …

probabilities between private and public employment, unemployment and inactivity. We examine the stocks and flows by gender, age and … unemployment rate. Public-sector employment contributes 20 percent to fluctuations in the unemployment rate in the UK, 15 percent …

We assess how changes in youth cohort sizes effect employment rates in German labour market regions. Replicating the … conventional approach, we estimate that a percentage increase in the youth share reduces regional employment rates by -0.2%. We … pressure on urban regional employment rates as a result of the projected decrease in the size of the German youth share. …

, Jordan and Tunisia - is constrained by adverse developments in the structure of employment opportunities on the demand side …. Specifically, we argue that the contraction in public sector employment opportunities has not been made up by a commensurate … probability of public sector employment for women with higher education is associated with either an increase in unemployment or a …