The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand … facilities. We provide projections of possible impacts of this reduction on less-educated women's future human capital framed … experience. We develop a new and modified form of the Mincerian log wage equation which we argue captures the effect of women …

, April 2020, saw a large contraction in employment for both men and women, where more men lost jobs in absolute terms …. Employment has recovered by August 2020 for men. However, for women, the likelihood of being employed is 9.5 percentage points … men and women in April, to recover in August, but not to the pre-pandemic levels. The paper also examines available income …

. Training is potentially important in compensating for the effects of children, especially for women who left education after …

Programs that increase the economic capacity of poor women can have cascading effects on children's participation in … providing capital and training to women in poor rural communities in Nicaragua affected children. Children in beneficiary … households are more likely to attend school one year after the end of the intervention. An increase in women's influence on …

This paper provides a clear and transparent setting to study the effect of additional pension benefits on women … contribution, which led to sharply different slopes of benefits for similar women to the left and to the right of the kink point … subsidy program can account for one third of the increase in women's age of claiming pension over the past decade …

may explain why other similar studies found such programs to be more effective for women than for men. In particular for … younger women a key effect of the programs is to reduce or postpone pregnancies and to increase the attachment to the labor …

especially for women with more than basic formal education. For those with lower education the welfare programs are shown to have …

. Aside from women's voluntary wage cuts in pursuit of family-friendly job amenities, we claim that adverse labor market … parenthood gender gap leaves room for government intervention on women's career breaks …

Covid-19 social distancing risk falls disproportionately on vulnerable workforce groups, such as women, older employees, non …

families with young children have been doing the equivalent of a working week in childcare. Women have been doing the greater … share, but overall, the gender childcare gap (the difference between the share of childcare done by women and the share done …