This paper is concerned with the English language requirements (both level and importance) of occupations in the United … greater English language skills, whether measured by the level of these skills or the importance of English for performing the … is reduced by 50 percent, but is still large, when worker characteristics, including their own English language skills …

There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely … to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare …

There exists remarkably large differences in body weights and obesity prevalence between black and white women in the … if the weight gap between black and white women is to decline …

a source of exogenous variation in the propensity to work from home, wage penalties reach 86 percent for black women and … 77 percent for white women. Promotion bias, task re-assignment and lack of productive social interaction are the most …

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 …