women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a … employment: whereas in high-income economies reduced employment in contact-intensive services had a large impact on women, this … sector plays a minor role in low-income countries. Another difference is that women's employment rebounded much more quickly …

We examine the impact of the global recession triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic on women's versus men's employment … declines among women. We examine the causes behind this pattern using micro data from several national labor force surveys, and … show that both the composition of women's employment across industries and occupations as well as increased childcare needs …

In recent US recessions, employment losses have been much larger for men than for women. Yet, in the current recession … caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the opposite is true: unemployment is higher among women. In this paper, we analyze the … causes and consequences of this phenomenon. We argue that women have experienced sharp employment losses both because their …

Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women … women had few rights before economic development took off. Is development the cause of expanding women's rights, or … conversely, do women's rights facilitate development? We argue that there is truth to both hypotheses. The literature on the …

The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes … took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this … paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power with women. In our model, women's legal rights set the marital …

assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor … force participation rates work substantially more than women coming from countries with lower relative female labor supply …

fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women … respectively, with the effect of mother's fertility and labor supply larger than that of women from the father's source country … stronger effect of father's than mother's education. Second-generation women's schooling levels are negatively affected by …

Using March Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we investigate married women's labor supply behavior from 1980 to … 1990s. Moreover, a major new development was that, during both decades, there was a dramatic reduction in women's own wage … elasticity. And, continuing past trends, women's labor supply also became less responsive to their husbands' wages. Between 1980 …