, reflecting a rise in the family-career complementarity. For women, the family-career trade-off has eased for non … developments for men and women, we find that within-family specialization, measured by the average spousal earnings contribution …Earnings in mid-career and children are two fundamental outcomes of the life-choices of men and women. Both require …

We assess whether the gender gap in authority in Sweden has changed during the period 1968–2000, and investigate to … what extent family factors are responsible for this gap. We find that the gap has narrowed modestly during this period, and … identify the life-event of parenthood as a major cause of the gap. When men become fathers, they gain authority; when women …

National Insurance Institute. The paper focuses on gender differences in work history patterns and, within each gender … to the considerable amount of intermittent employment found amongst Israeli male workers. Also, women's labor market … attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater for younger than …

find that differences in the wealth, circumstances and family status of women can explain between 58% and 99% of the gap in …This paper aims to explain disparities in the charitable bequest behavior of men and women. I use data on charitable … bequests in wills from 17th Century Suffolk, England to investigate whether women or men were more generous to the poor when …

importance of structural change in reducing gender disparities by decreasing the labor demand for physical attributes. The … results show that India, the country with the greatest physical labor requirements, exhibits the largest labor market gender … inequality. In contrast, Brazil's labor requirements have followed a similar trend seen in the United States, reducing gender …

We study the development of wage elasticity of labor supply for Austrian men and women over time using comparable and … behavior of single women. Most remarkable is the almost continuous reduction in the labor supply reactions of married women …

Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job … experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of subsequent wages while no such effect could be found for women. These findings … support the interpretation that women invest more in general rather than specific human capital which make them less exposed …

. The timing of women's higher-wage employment relative to child bearing is crucial for its effect on fertility. If women … effect, which reduces fertility. In contrast, if the time period when women work abroad does not coincide with the period …

willingness of men and women to make risky decisions on behalf of a group, (2) the amount of risk men and women take for the group … lower fraction of women being willing to make the group decision than men. The amount of risk taken for the group is … generally lower than in the case where subjects decide for themselves only, indicating a cautious shift. The women that would …

matching comparisons technique to explore the role of individual and family characteristics in determining gender segregation …This paper analyzes the evolution of gender segregation in the workplace in Mexico between 1994 and 2004, using a … gender wage gaps by 5 percentage points, while the elimination of occupational segregation would have increased gender wage …