We examine the gender legacy of past institutions by comparing Italian municipalities located in a narrow band across …

, and the women worked closer to home. Next, due to the common pool nature of irrigation water, historically irrigation has … involved more frequent warfare. This raised the social status of men and restricted women's movement. These two mechanisms have …

This chapter argues that gender equality and economic development are tightly intertwined, and that gender aspects … explaining how gender equality and economic development influence each other. In particular, the framework emphasizes the … interaction between SDG 5 (gender equality), SDG 3 (good health and well-being) and SDG 4 (quality education). It then applies the …

Gender inequality is much more than wage gaps. Indeed, one interesting case is how individuals allocate time among … different activities such as paid work, unpaid work and domestic work. This paper aims to quantify gender inequality in the time … use in unpaid care and home activities and to investigate the main drivers of gender gaps in Colombia using the National …

While education and labor force participation of women have been increased, there is still a substantial gender gap in … and gender equality. We address this question by examining the influence of works councils on the gender policies of … men and women. This finding also holds in a recursive multivariate probit model that accounts for potential endogeneity of …

are still underrepresented in several occupations. In this article, the effect of gender norms on whether women enter male … flexibility and women's relative preferences for family-friendly jobs in shaping gender-based sorting across occupations. …Despite the notable progress that has been made in bridging the gap between women and men in the world of work, women …

state of residence. Overall, the results suggest that policies that aim to increase women's education and promote gender …-in-law's presence consistently diminishes the daughter-in-law's engagement in paid work and increases both women's time spent on …

We study the gender gap in the duration of sick leave in Spain by splitting this duration into two types of days … Accidents at Work for 2011-2019, we found that women presented longer standard durations (i.e., purely attached to physiological …, we found that women were more inefficient at lower levels of income, whereas in case of men, this occurred at higher …

Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in … regression results show that even after accounting for human capital endowments, women are systematically less likely to … participate in paid work than men. Oaxaca decomposition of the gender gap confirms that most of it (i.e. 95%) is unexplained by …