This paper looks at the determinants of secondary school attendance in Bangladesh with a focus on the interaction … between community gender norms and relative supply of madrasas (i.e. Islamic schools). We present a theoretical framework … Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey (BDHS) is combined with community information on the availability of non - religious …

Using the European Community Household Panel, we investigate gender differences in training participation over the …

was partially offset by changes in the distribution of these characteristics. Between-gender inequality fell with respect … to both samples. In contrast to within-gender inequality, this was largely explained by changes in the returns to the …

and Program Participation (SIPP) to investigate gender and race disparities in home ownership, value, and equity. These … value or home equity. Once households have entered the housing market, differences across gender, race and family type are … associated with differences that are larger than those based solely on gender and are as large as those associated solely with …

labor market performance of immigrants across gender related to duration in the destination, schooling, age at immigration … those in Sweden, Denmark, Luxembourg or Spain the worst, particularly among non-EU born migrants. Gender differences are …

For many years the NHS has been subject to allegations that gender and racial discrimination are a feature of the … simultaneous model is then developed which has important consequences for estimates of the influence of gender, ethnicity, training … and career interruptions. We find evidence of significant differences in speed of promotion between gender and ethnic …

This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist … countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general …, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which available data relate. Most of the gender pay gap is ascribed to …

and gender differences began to vary greatly across these countries. We provide the first systematic analysis of the … determinants of the gender unemployment gap in the Czech Republic using a method that decomposes unemployment rates into transition … further examine the flows in the Czech Republic by estimating gender-specific multinomial logit models to learn which factors …