evolution over time of the employment rates of women and of the young, and of hours worked in OECD countries. Beyond controlling … do all this we find that culture still matters for women employment rates and for hours worked. However, policies and … appear to be important in explaining the employment rate of the young. In the case of women employment rates, the policy …

countries on four continents there is no difference - men and women do the same amount of total work. This latter fact has been …, macroeconomists, the general public and sociologists are unaware of it and instead believe that women perform more total work. The … facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured by market wages), as women's total work is …

assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor … force participation rates work substantially more than women coming from countries with lower relative female labor supply …

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 …

Although it is well established that women's labour force participation drops markedly with marriage and childbearing …, surprisingly little is known about women's labour market transitions, especially in developing countries. This paper uses the … Indonesian Family Life Survey to track the employment histories of over 9,000 women across a period of more than 20 years …

women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women's behavior in the …. Immigrant women narrow the labor supply gap with native‐born women with time in the United States, and, while our results …