I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men … women dissatisfied with pay and promotion opportunities. I find that family-related constraints and dissatisfaction with … other fields once women's relatively high exit rates from male fields generally are taken into account …

lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps …

This paper investigates the responsiveness of women's labor supply to their husband's job loss – the so-called added …

endogeneity of income in a new way by using a simulated instrumental variable based on a fixed EU-wide sample of women. Results … percentage points. The effect is higher for single mothers, for women in the middle of the skills distribution, and in countries …

. These allow accounting for both the direct effects of sectoral regulation on within-sector performance and the indirect … effects of sectoral regulation on firms in other sectors through intersectoral input-output linkages. Our econometric … at the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both …

efficiency arguments are questionable, because of the disemployment effects of strict regulation. Regulation is better explained … rationally desires strict regulation to divert rent from other groups such as the skilled workers and the unemployed. Legal … tradition. Given a predisposition to intervene, these countries begin with some degree of labour regulation, which then creates …

unemployment rate equation is also estimated for different categories of workers. While men and women are equally affected by …

By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show … that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …. The paradox of women's declining relative well-being is found across various datasets, measures of subjective well …