gender differences in the labour market. We find that household characteristics, rather than alternative explanations such as …With the use of panel data constructed from the 1995 and 1997 Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys, this paper … explores the sectoral reallocation of labour by gender. In Bulgaria, men and women started the transition on an almost equal …

empirically investigate the dynamics and drivers of gender gaps in employment rates, wages and workhours during the pandemic … experienced a major decline in their employment rate and workhours, as well as gender segregation in the most affected industries …. Relying on Estonian Labour Force Survey data, we document that the pandemic has, if anything, reduced gender inequality in all …

unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal wage employment, and self employment. The parameters of the model … self employment while increasing average wages in the formal and informal sectors …

shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … largest for lower-skilled individuals. We show that domestic manufacturing employment declined much more in countries that saw …

Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time … (1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection …-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the one observed in the data, which is mainly due to large positive selection of women …

As part of a more general process of employment reallocation from less to more productive employers, jobto- job flows …

educational attainment or skills. Gender is a further dimension in which the impacts of trade liberalization can differ. In a … globalizing world it is important to understand whether and how trade policy can contribute toward enhancing gender convergence in …

This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of domestic workers' employment using a unique micro-level dataset … on Lebanese households drawn from the National Household Budget Survey (2005) conducted by Central Administration of … Statistics (CAS). Controlling for household, household head, dwelling, and regional characteristics, we find that the probability …

might affect employment in different ways. A policy shift toward a low-carbon green economy may create new and additional … crowding out of employment in other sectors. In addition, energy prices may increase owing to feed-in tariffs subsidizing …