into account the fact that women still face an unequal access to tertiary education in many less developed countries, it … appears that women are over-represented in the brain drain. This result is reinforced by econometric estimates showing that … emigration of highly skilled women is higher, the poorer is their country of origin. This effect is also observed for men but to …

This paper analyses the difference in short-term employment recovery between young men and women in India, Peru and … whether - and to what extent commonly suggested mechanisms are responsible for a relatively slower recovery among young women …

job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment transition probabilities for women than men when controlling for individual and … considerably lower and also significantly less wage-elastic for women than for men …

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 …

Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This … and a team-based payment scheme. We find that women are more likely than men to select team-based compensation in our … baseline treatment, but women and men join teams with equal frequency when we add an efficiency advantage to team production …

Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women may contribute …

The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce … barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and … states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, we explore the influence of women in top …