The role of employer discrimination in widening labor market differences between men and women has been hypothesized … and investigated in different settings. Using a field experiment, this paper examines the presence and magnitude of gender …-based discrimination by employers at the point of screening in Tunisia. The study sent out 1,571 fictitious and substantially identical …

. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant negative consequences of legal gender discrimination on women …-intended policy interventions to address legal gender discrimination in certain domains. The paper concludes with a discussion of the …This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women …