market participation through gender lens. Results show that women's education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work … therefore suggest that, women need to be educated above secondary level to become visible in the labour market …

This study analyses employment transitions of working-age women in India. The puzzling issue of low labour force … entry and exit in this context. Using a nationally representative panel dataset, we show that women are not only … corrects for selection bias due to initial employment and panel attrition, to investigate the determinants of women's entry …

This study contributes to the rapidly growing literature on women in tourism. It focuses on a group of 13 Caribbean … countries. The study analyses the impact of women in apical positions within firms (top manager or owner) on firm performance … Regression Adjustment (IPWRA) estimator are used. The analysis finds that opportunities for women in these positions in the …

This study examines the gender wage gap between male and female workers in the US using a cross-section from the … Current Population Survey (CPS) It shows that the extent of gender segregation by both industry and occupation is … appropriate techniques in the presence of such strong gender segregation. To secure even greater precision we repeat the matching …

, Vietnam, and Tanzania). Overall, the economic, social, and institutional constraints that shape women's labor force …We investigate the micro-level determinants of labor force participation of urban married women in eight low- and … middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to …

evidence suggest that it may be problematic for women to reach a white-collar high skill job, also in the more protected public … periods of up to 20 years (for Egypt), we examine the evolution of the glass ceiling problem for women resorting to the … matching approach, which, to our knowledge, has never been used in this field. Instead of looking at the gender gap along the …

problems. A decomposition of the estimates indicates that most of the gender differences in Reading and Math cannot be related … to gender differences in behavioral problems. The large overall gender gap in Reading seems mainly to be the result of … gender differences between children without behavioral problems living in 'normal families', i.e. families which are not …

childbearing years. The gender wage gap grows from virtually zero, or even a small, positive gap in favor of women, until the age …Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable, overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses … data on young workers in their early years in the labor market to understand how gender wage gaps evolve over time, if at …

Over the last decade, the economic literature has increasingly focused on the importance of gender identity and sticky … gender norms in an attempt to explain the persistence of the gender gaps. Using detailed register data on the latest cohorts … of Danish labour market entrants, this paper examines the intergenerational correlation in gender-stereotypical choice of …

This paper analyses the gender gap in compensation for CEOs, Vice-Directors, and potential top executives in the 2000 … the period, the overall gender gap in compensation for top executives and potential top executives decreased from 35 … percent to 31 percent. However, contrary to many other studies, we do not find that the gender gap for Danish top executives …