In all the MENA countries considered in this study, namely Jordan, Egypt and Tunisia, there has been a significant … matching approach, which, to our knowledge, has never been used in this field. Instead of looking at the gender gap along the … woman in the MENA countries, which is relevant also for other countries …

considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition …

. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the … LFP. To eliminate the education gender gap requires, on the other hand, for the psychic cost of obtaining higher education …

jointly, however, mainly due to the lack of relevant data. This paper addresses this shortcoming by looking at the gender … identify people by country of residence, place of birth, gender and level of education. The evidence summarized in this paper … are now more or less gender-balanced. A more surprising result is that this is also true for the highly skilled. Taking …

I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment – sibling gender composition – affects women …'s gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally … a brother acquire more traditional gender norms with negative consequences for their labor earnings. I provide evidence …

on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board director matched panel data for Norway and Germany …, when a Norwegian board gender quota came into effect. We present two novel results that challenge previous thinking about … the effects of board gender quotas on women directors. First, we find a positive impact of employee representation before …

This paper documents an important but mostly overlooked reason for female underrepresentation in politics: gender gaps … council elections (2001-2016) in a German state, we provide evidence for a gender recontest gap among both incumbent and non …

share of women in workplaces. The paper ponders if better management of gender relations may improve unions' fate …

flowed from GCC to other countries in MENA. In the 1980s-1990s labor source switched to South Asia; so did the flow of … structural breaks in the flow of remittances in the MENA region. The change in the direction of remittance flows deprived several … MENA labor exporters of large sums of foreign exchange, adding significant economic, social and political hardships on non …