Current Population Survey (CPS) It shows that the extent of gender segregation by both industry and occupation is …-comparability between male and female employment. To address these problems the study uses a matching approach, which we also extend to a … appropriate techniques in the presence of such strong gender segregation . To secure even greater precision we repeat the matching …

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

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. …

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 …

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 …

employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest … family and female employment in Mongolia in 2016. We examine the availability of childcare, social norms and attitudes … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …

. 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 …