ratios, in the presence of strong social norms against female employment. One such channel is women's desired labor supply … segregation decreases? Does the gender pay gap decline? We exploit exogenous variation in sex ratios across cohorts and regions … traditionally male-dominated occupations and industries, and the gender pay gap declined. These findings are consistent with a …

reforms should have had an effect on the employment duration within temporary work agencies. Based on an informative … administrative data set we use hazard rate models to examine whether the employment duration has changed in response to these reforms … employment duration while the authorization of fixed-term contracts reduced employment tenure …

information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining power of men and women and assess the impact of the gender gap in … bargaining strength on the male-female wage gap. We show that a model with additive fixed effects for workers and gender … perform a simple decomposition by assigning the firm-specific wage premiums for one gender to the other. Second, we relate the …

We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using a large longitudinal data set for …

Temporary agency employment has grown steadily in most European countries over the past three decades as part of the … general trend towards increased employment flexibility. Yet to this day, it remains an open question what drives the demand … for temporary agency workers. The paper examines, first, whether the deregulation of temporary agency employment is …

relative labor-demand equations. The results demonstrate the existence of substitution of employment across times of the day …

This paper fills a gap in the literature by investigating whether temporary agency employment substitutes regular … employment. To take into account the interaction between the two employment forms, we identify a SVAR model with correlated … innovations by volatility regimes. We show that a positive shock to temporary agency employment increases overall employment, but …