wages of natives in the U.S. Yet, despite the significant degree of occupational segregation by gender regardless of workers … of immigration on native workers. Instead, using data from Spain, where the immigrant population has risen from 4 percent … impacts on the employment patterns of native men and women. This proves to be important as foreign-born workers only seem to …

start-ups among women and explains about one third of the entire gender difference. Most substantially, men opt for a start …Women start fewer businesses than men. The start-up rate among women in Germany falls short of males' start-up rate by … one third. We scrutinize this gender gap using individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large …

Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates … virginity, across societies and over time, can be influenced by socio-economic factors such as male income inequality, gender …

more inhospitable routes. These changes are likely to place a heavier burden on illegal immigrant women as they are more … immigrant women from Mexico relative to men as a result of higher migration costs: 1) A decrease in the relative flow of older … and highly educated undocumented immigrant women relative to men; 2) A change in the skill composition of immigrant women …

There are relevant gender differences in the labour-market status of health sciences graduates in Spain: (i) female …

This paper analyzes the relationship between time allocation decisions of the unemployed, gender, and regional … associated with increases in the time devoted to study by men, and to household production by women, and with decreases in the … time devoted to personal care by men and leisure by women. We also find evidence favoring consumption smoothing as the …

that while both male and female entrepreneurs in ECA are sub-optimally small, women's returns to scale are significantly …

Concerns about gender equality have jumped to the forefront of public debate in recent years, and Gender Economics is … slowly affirming its place as a major field of study. This assessment examines where we are in terms of gender equality. It … of policies and interventions targeting gender inequality. In doing so, I provide the foundations against which the …

parents do not have university degrees) fare on the labor market. We find that among graduate women, FiF graduates earn 8 ….3% less on average than graduate women whose parents have a university degree. For men, we find no such difference. A … decomposition of the difference between FiF and non-FiF graduate women reveals that prior academic attainment, whether they attended …

female labor forces. We also find that the positive influence of women in top leadership positions on managerial gender …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 …