have reduced, in the case of Belarus women’ activity rate has been practically unchanged despite an increase in the gender … compute an expected wage offer for women. The latter is included, in the second step, as a regressor in the structural female … poverty trap mechanisms, whereas women in low-income households have much lower than average participation rates. At the same …

countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Former Soviet Union (FSU), of which Belarus is a particular case. In CEE … more than participation, due to labour hoarding practices. In Belarus, only wages adjust, since (mainly state owned) firms … suggests that the deterioration of women wages is caused by negative changes in observed characteristics (due to horizontal …

We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force … presence in the household of preschool and school-age children and/or the elderly and disabled affects women's likelihood of … any person aged 75 or older) significantly increases prime-age urban women's likelihood of participating in market work …

The disproportionate impact of children on women's earnings constitutes the primary factor contributing to persistent … earnings of mothers and grandmothers, suggesting that the life-cycle impact of children on women is larger than previously …

the first to examine the implications of switching to PT work for women's subsequent earnings trajectories, distinguishing …,000 prime-aged women strongly attached to the Spanish labor market, we find that PT work aggravates the segmentation of the … labor market insofar there is a PT pay penalty and this penalty is larger and more persistent in the case of women with …

women using data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics 1996-2005. We use the Canadian Tax and Credit Simulator … estimation procedure, and quantify biases caused by using average instead of marginal tax rates. Finally, because marginal tax …

explicitly allows for announcement and implementation effects. We explore several mechanisms through which women can respond to …

show that the time allocations of women with pre-school children are highly sensitive to changes in wages and the costs of …