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 …

regression discontinuity estimator based on children's birth months, we find a sizable effect of childcare attendance on women … attendance differ by women's characteristics and are particularly strong for younger, more educated women. Furthermore, we also …

labour force participation of women, without reducing the fertility rate, is needed. In the year 2000, with the aim of … increasing women's labour market participation, a partial individualisation of the Irish income tax system was initiated. Using … on female labour supply and caring duties. I find that the labour force participation rate of married women increased by …

Across countries, women and men allocate time differently between market work, domestic services, and care work. In … women plays a crucial role in generating the observed dispersion of outcomes, particularly for middle-income countries …

-selection into lower productivity jobs, but also from a lower participation among women. Inactivity around the age of motherhood is … market, as well as future earnings and promotions. In this paper, we discuss the major barriers reducing women's labor force …

bounds showing that gender norms significantly increase the weight placed on women's utility by 1.1-5.1%, leading to lower …

Using data from the 2011 and 2016 Life in Kyrgyzstan surveys, we examine Kyrgyz women's labour supply elasticities at … the extensive margin. We use Heckman's two-step approach to predict earnings for the non-participating women and then use … these predictions to estimate the participation equation. We find that women's labour supply decision is not influenced 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 …