This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women …'s outcomes across various domains (categories) that constitute the Women in Business and the Law measure of gender inequality …. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant negative consequences of legal gender discrimination on women …

. The study does not find evidence of other gender differences in the hiring process …

and investigated in different settings. Using a field experiment, this paper examines the presence and magnitude of gender …

This paper proposes a new decomposition method to understand how gender pay gaps arise within firms. The method …

This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women … Women, Business and the Law database, the paper documents large and persistent gender inequalities, especially with regard …

leisure, home production, and work. The paper aims to explain labor market gender gaps in a marginalized Roma population with … Regional Roma Survey for six Western Balkan countries. The simulation results show that the main source for gender … differentials in the labor market is the unequal opportunities in favor of males - not gender preferences or differences in home …

This paper contributes to better understanding firms' discriminatory behavior in the presence of gender-based legal …

This paper examines the role of industrial and occupational segregation in explaining the gender wage gap and its … evolution in Georgia between 2004 and 2015. It first documents the declining trends observed in the gender wage gap in Georgia … gender wage gap and its decline by decomposing the gender wage gap into the within-category and between-category components …

comprehensive overview of gender differences in property ownership in the developing world. Using Demographic and Health Survey data … from 41 developing countries, this paper seeks to fill this gap, by investigating the extent of gender gaps in the … systems. The study finds that there is substantial variation in gender gaps across countries, but in almost all countries men …