United States, Kenya, and Uganda. The existing evidence shows consistent positive impacts on school participation in the …

reconstruction process had mainly fallen on women in postwar Germany. This paper provides causal evidence on long-term legacies of … postwar reconstruction and mandatory employment on women's labor market outcomes. We combine a unique dataset on city …

-native wage gap for women …

2001, women's employment participation across South Asian countries has been low and broadly unchanged; (ii) the gender … countries, and; (v) women with mid-level education tend to have lower employment rates than those with both lower and higher …

Modern women often face an uneasy choice: dedicating their time to reproductive household work, or joining the …-trivial costs, and necessarily involve some trade-offs, influencing the general feeling of happiness women experience given their … decision. The trade-offs are especially pronounced in traditional developing countries, where both the pressure for women to …

This paper reviews international evidence regarding women's homelessness. It discusses different definitions of … homelessness and how women are frequently part of the "hidden homeless" population and less a part of the unsheltered homeless … consequences of women's homelessness, including the consequences for children, and the material and psychological coping strategies …

In contrast to less-skilled men, less-skilled women have experienced growing labor force involvement and moderate wage … increases. Compared to more-skilled women, less-skilled women have fallen behind. We investigated the reasons behind these …, from 1979-2004. We find that less-skilled women have found themselves in an 'intermediate' place in the labor market. Like …

This study investigates the factors that underlay the low labour force participation rate among Palestinian-Arab women … in Israel relative to Jewish women despite the high educational attainment among this group. We focus on four factors … retirement of Arab women from the labour market. We find that all four of these factors affect the probability of Palestinian …

In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with … moving from an origin with relatively low women's rights to a destination with a relatively high level of women's rights …. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the level of women's rights provided. The model predicts a non …