This paper studies the effect of trade liberalization on an under-explored aspect of wage inequality - gender … gender. A reduction in tariffs induces more productive firms to modernize their technology and enter the export market. New …

Although the gender wage gap in the U.S. has narrowed, women's career trajectories diverge from men's after the birth … datasets show insignificant gender differentials in access to employer-subsidized child care and access to scheduling …

study gender differences in promotion rates and in the wage gains attached to promotions. Several unique features of our … attached to promotions, and relatively few studies on gender differences have considered promotions and wage increases together … there is essentially no gender difference in wage growth with or without promotions …

the difficulty of tasks and gender stereotypes. We develop a theoretical model that separates these forces and apply it to … ability both for themselves and for others. Gender stereotypes also have strong predictive power for beliefs, particularly for … gender gaps in self-confidence …

This paper summarizes research on gender differences in economic settings. I discuss gender differences in attitudes … toward competition, altruism and the closely related issue of cooperation, and risk preferences. While gender differences in …. Surprisingly, the results are also quite mixed when concerning gender differences in risk attitudes. I discuss the external …

wages, the gender wage gap and the gender composition of employment. The focus is the pay equity initiative of the Canadian …

Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women … women had few rights before economic development took off. Is development the cause of expanding women's rights, or … conversely, do women's rights facilitate development? We argue that there is truth to both hypotheses. The literature on the …

Women's empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major … role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development … literature on both sides of the empowerment-development nexus, and argues that the inter-relationships are probably too weak to …

Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper … of development (i.e., capital accumulation and declining fertility) exacerbated the tension in men's conflicting …

ratios were almost normal, a development heralded as a sign that son preference and sex choice have vanished. However, normal … - ultrasound and economic development accounting for the change in who chooses sons …