This paper estimates the causal effect of vocational high school (VHS) education on employment likeli-hood relative to … employment likelihood relative to GHS degree. However, once we include town-specific socio-economic variables to control for … education, employment, and business activity levels in the town, the IV estimates get much smaller and become statistically …

. However, existing work does not disentangle the selection-causality nexus. We use variation in gender composition of fields of … fertility by endogamous couples, i.e., by tertiary graduates from the same field of study, declines for women and increases for … into these fields. We also show that the EU-wide level of gender segregation across fields of study has not changed since …

This study examines the initial impact of COVID-19 shutdowns on the employment and hours of unincorporated self …-employed workers using data from the Current Population Survey. Although the shutdowns decreased employment and hours for all groups …, differential effects by gender, couple status, and parental status exist. Coupled women were less likely to be working than coupled …

analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. If control variables are added, estimates are split by gender and different effects of over- and underweight people are …

aversion, which is usually not observed, yet crucial for the self-employment decision. Unlike most of the existing empirical … for migrants. Despite finding significant correlations between self-employment and some of these factors, none of them …

Despite numerous measures intended to enhance gender equality, gender-specific study and career choices remain a … 105 pairs of occupations, and the respondents are not informed about the gender distribution of the two occupations …. Results show that adults are gender-neutral when advising a daughter but have a pronounced preference for male …

effects vary substantially across gender: women face a penalty in the form of a lower impact on salaried employment, but the … participation and employment). In contrast, there are important effects at the intensive margin: a 10 percentile higher ICT skills … index increases the probability of salaried employment by 6.5 percentage points, and leads to a 9.5 percent higher per …