-generation immigrants, both women and men, from source countries with more gender equality (as measured by the World Economic Forum's Global …There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In …

reversal of the gender gap in college attendance beginning in the 1980s (Goldin, Katz and Kuziemko 2006), making girls more … countries have lower values of the World Economic Forum's Gender Equity Index, or lower female labor force participation rates …

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 … supply, a result that suggests that the female findings reflect notions of gender roles rather than overall work orientation …

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 …

women's relative human capital improved comparably in the two decades. Occupational upgrading and deunionization had a … larger positive effect on women's relative wages in the 1980s, explaining a portion of the slower 1990s convergence. However …, the largest factor was that the "unexplained" gender wage gap fell much faster in the 1980s than the 1990s. Our evidence …

important for analyzing women's post-school human capital accumulation, residual wage inequality, and the gender pay gap … surveys like the March Current Population Survey annual supplement. -- gender ; microeconomic data collection ; human capital …

Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender … explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender differences in occupation and industry continued to be important. Moreover …, the gender pay gap declined much more slowly at the top of the wage distribution that at the middle or the bottom and by …

employment for young workers, native women, immigrant women and those with low cognitive ability. These effects largely hold up … countries. Moreover, the effects of protection on the young, women, and immigrants are stronger in countries with higher levels …

We study the impact of selection bias on the gender pay gap, focusing on post 1981 period. Previous work on this …, we find that, after adjusting for selection, there were large declines in the raw and the unexplained gender wage gaps … account for selection. Our results suggest that women's relative wage offers have increased over this period. However …