gaps in employment and earnings. We find that women have notably lower employment rates and earnings than men, even though … earnings gaps are higher in self-employment than in wage employment. Tertiary education and urban location account for a large … part of the gender earnings gap and mitigate high female propensity to self-employment. Our findings suggest that policies …

evolved over the last 50 years. Using data from the March CPS, the Census, and the ACS, we examine several employment and … earning outcomes. Hispanics have experienced sizable gains to employment: from a negative 2% prior to 1990 to a positive 4 … 30% with some improvement after 2000. Most of the employment gain is driven by those with less than a high school degree …

evolved over the last 50 years. Using data from the March CPS, the Census, and the ACS, we examine several employment and … earning outcomes. Hispanics have experienced sizable gains to employment: from a negative 2% prior to 1990 to a positive 4 … 30% with some improvement after 2000. Most of the employment gain is driven by those with less than a high school degree …

We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian … show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to …

. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to … that ethnic identity strongly is associated with employment and wages as well a number of job satisfaction measures. We …

informal and formal workers, both at the means and along the wage distribution. I use two definitions of informal employment: a …) employment without a written agreement and b) employment while officially registered as unemployed at a labour office. In order … to reduce the bias resulting from the non-random selection of individuals into informal employment, I use a rich set of …