part of the gender earnings gap and mitigate high female propensity to self-employment. Our findings suggest that policies …Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor … market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender …

in reducing gender gap in employment. … education, we find a large and positive effect of tertiary education on employment. It confirms the important role of education …

builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women's employment in MENA. Besides examining how different … in the extent to which self-employment after marriage is available to women to compensate for the reduction in wage … employment opportunities. …

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 …We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian …

We investigate gender differences across multiple dimensions after three months of the first UK lockdown of March 2020 … and housework more than men. Neither the gender gaps in COVID-19-related health and economic concerns nor the gender gaps … find that the gender gap in mental health can be partially accounted for by the difference in COVID-19-related health …

to change legal gender. In many states transgender people are forced to undergo surgical procedures if they wish to … change their gender on ID documents, which can be invasive, expensive, and is not always desired. In the present work state … causal impact of these removals on the labour force participation and employment of transgender people. The findings …

gender neutral. Given the large pre-existing gender gaps in employment, in absolute terms, more men lost employment than … Survey (CPHS) database, this paper investigates the first effects of Covid-19 induced lockdown on employment and the gendered … pattern of time allocation inside the home. Examining the employment status during the last 12 months of over 40 …

for low female work participation. The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) Employment Unemployment Survey (EUS) unit … market participation through gender lens. Results show that women’s education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work …

This paper examines local labor market outcomes from an oil and gas boom. We examine two main outcomes across gender …, race, and ethnicity: the probability of employment in the oil and gas industry and the log wages of workers employed … outside the oil and gas industry. We find that men and women both gain employment in the oil and gas industry during booms …

Gender-based board quotas do not always lead to higher share of women in top management positions. We study the … consequences of an affirmative action policy that stipulates gender- and race-based targets in top management positions, beyond … boards. We focus on the representation of intersectional group identities, such as race and gender, at the top. We find …