Wages, labor market participation, hours worked, and savings differ by gender and marital status. In addition, women … models and by calibrating them using data on males only. In this paper we ask whether ignoring gender and marriage in both …

existing literature, we construct predicted employment growth indices that allow us to separately identify demand … children's health. We do find, however, that focusing on gender-inclusive economic variables obscures the extent to which the … health. These patterns, which are consistent with previous findings on the effects of individual parental employment and job …

This paper explores a novel mechanism of gender identity formation. Specifically, we explore how the work behavior of a … gender identity formation, has so far been overlooked. Accordingly, our key theoretical innovation is how the utility …

The decline in the employment-population ratios for men and women over the period 2000-2007 prior to the Great … Recession represents an historic turnaround in the evolution of U.S. employment. The decline is disproportionately concentrated … experienced quite different wage and employment trends. Neither taxes nor transfers appear likely to explain the employment …

composition of occupations and in the employment distribution of workers that produced the observed reductions in segregation were …

gender gap in this hazard rate, since low earners were more likely to leave employment, and were disproportionately female … points relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the … most important determinant of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than half of the …

This paper examines gender differences in labor market outcomes for hard-to-employ youth in the US and West Germany … absolute terms, correcting for purchasing power. The relatively high employment rates of less educated German youth combined …-German difference in employment rates …