Affirmative Action is not only supposed to help move minorities and females into employment, it is also supposed to …. Using disaggregated employment data in a new sample of nearly 10,000 establishments,this study finds that Affirmative Action … was generally successful during the late 1910's in increasing minority employment in skilled white-collar occupations as …

This paper summarizes the main lessons learned from Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, a … microdata data. The evidence shows that regulation reduces labor market flexibility, reduces the employment of marginal workers …

In contrast to less-skilled men, less-skilled women have experienced growing labor force involvement and moderate wage … increases. Compared to more-skilled women, less-skilled women have fallen behind. We investigated the reasons behind these …, from 1979-2004. We find that less-skilled women have found themselves in an 'intermediate' place in the labor market. Like …

working in Education and the Public sectors - sectors that are more socially acceptable for women, suggesting that parental …

antidepressant use has a positive effect on the employment probability of women living with HIV. The proposed instrumental variables …This paper examines the effect of antidepressant use on the likelihood of being employed among HIV-positive women … predict antidepressant use independently of outcomes; thus, addressing potential sources of bias -- more depressed women are …

employment and attachment to the labor market. TANF appears to have had a larger effect on the least educated native-born women …In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … of three groups of low-educated women: foreign-born citizens, foreign-born non-citizens and native-born citizens. Among …

several specific gender-related social norms and how they constrain women's employment. I present examples of policies aimed …This article discusses cultural barriers to women's participation and success in the labor market in developing … countries. I begin by describing how gender norms influence the relationship between economic development and female employment …

”. We find that for both men and women the increase in the employment rate coincides with a reduction in the early …As much like other industrialized countries, in recent decades the employment rate in Germany for those aged 55 to 69 …

1975 to 2004, we analyze the response of single women's housework, labor supply, and other time to variation in tax and …