This study analyses employment transitions of working-age women in India. The puzzling issue of low labour force … entry and exit in this context. Using a nationally representative panel dataset, we show that women are not only … corrects for selection bias due to initial employment and panel attrition, to investigate the determinants of women's entry …

, Vietnam, and Tanzania). Overall, the economic, social, and institutional constraints that shape women's labor force …We investigate the micro-level determinants of labor force participation of urban married women in eight low- and … middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to …

This paper investigates gender-based segregation across different fields of study at the post-secondary level of … schooling, and how that affects subsequent labour market outcomes of men and women. Using a nationally representative … longitudinal data-set from India, we provide evidence that there is substantial intra-household gender disparity in the choice of …

1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force …'s education, stigmas against educated women engaging in menial work, and falling selectivity of highly educated women. On the … demand side, employment in sectors appropriate for educated women grew less than the supply of educated workers, leading many …

This paper uses dictator experiments to examine gender differences in altruistic behavior in the United States when … decisions are made individually and jointly. In anonymous individual giving to charity, women give substantially more than men … only in mixed-sex groups, indicating a gender-based component to the value of the social signal sent. Although men and …

Since their inception in 1995, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)'s Gender-Related Development Index (GDI …) and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) have been criticized on conceptual and empirical grounds. In 2005-6, the UNDP's Human … adjusting the recommendations, making concrete proposals for two gender-related indicators, and presenting illustrative results …

'Stock estimates' of missing women suggest that the problem is concentrated in South and East Asia and among young … children. In contrast, 'flow estimates' suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it …

Using cross-country and panel regressions, we investigate to what extent gender gaps in education and employment … (proxied using gender gaps in labor force participation) reduce economic growth. Using the most recent data and investigating … analysis to employment gaps using panel data. We find that gender gaps in education and employment considerably reduce economic …

economic opportunities. Unit level estimation results confirm that participation of poorly educated women is mainly determined … factors drawing women into the labor force at attractive employment and pay conditions. This affects, by 2004, only a small … minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …