in the household and self-employment probabilities among women. This has been seen as an indication of women with young … women since there are other institutions in place aiming at facilitating the combination of work and family. Using Swedish … choosing self-employment also among Swedish women. The effect is strongest for women with very young children, 0-3 years of age …

, differential effects by gender, couple status, and parental status exist. Coupled women were less likely to be working than coupled … men, while single women were more likely to be working than single men. However, fathers of school-age children who …

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 …