We study the effects of monetary policy shocks on employment gender gaps in a panel of 22 countries using quarterly … shocks, narrowing the employment gender gap over time. Two factors contribute to explaining this heterogeneous effect. First … market adjustment, the narrowing of the gender employment gap is initially driven by a reduction in the gender unemployment …

United States since 1980. Contractionary monetary policy actions systematically increase inequality in labor earnings, total …

We compile a novel database on average public and private sector wages and public-private wage differentials, which we … use to analyze how average public-private wage differentials vary according to gender and skill level as well as over time … counter-cyclically, increasing during economic downturns, and increases prior to elections. Both private sector wages and …

before and after the January 1992 price liberalization is analyzed here, as are the associated movements of wages and overall …

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. GENDER DIFFERENCES IN BEHAVIOR AND MACROECONOMIC OUTCOMES -- III. GENDER … INEQUALITIES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: A SIMULTANEOUS RELATIONSHIP -- IV. GENDER INEQUALITIES IN LABOR AND FINANCIAL MARKETS -- V …. GENDER, ECONOMIC INSTABILITY, AND ADJUSTMENT -- VI. SUMMARY OF SURVEY ON GENDER AND MACROECONOMICS -- REFERENCES. …

On the current pace of reforms, global gender gaps are estimated to close, using deterministic (linear or log … efforts, gender gaps may in fact never close. Using Markov chains, a common approach in macroeconomics, this paper analyzes … the dynamics of the cross-country distribution of the gender gap in labor force participation. This methodology does not …

insights into gender patterns. We create a novel multidimensional survey directed at eight central banks in advanced economies … (G7 national central banks and the European Central Bank), covering several aspects of gender, such as women … new comprehensive index of gender equality-Human Resources Gender Index (HRGI). We show that these central banks have room …