Using comparable data for 24 countries since the 1970s, we document gender convergence in schooling, employment and …-earners have clear positive impacts on lone mothers' employment and negligible impacts on other groups. While most of this …

. It suggests that the pay and employment experience of low skilled Americans is a poor counterfactual for assessing how …

International Adult Literacy Survey we find that employment of skilled to unskilled labour is unrelated to differences in skill … premium but that changes in relative employment are related to changes in relative wages raising the possibility of some … substitution behavior. Still, the differing dispersion of wages is not a major contributor to differences in employment rates. The …