issues. Our analysis shows that even though the gender wage gap is shrinking, discrimination is not. …

relation to gender and women, the focus has been on the influence of social contexts such as networks, family and household … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography … gendered, reflecting local institutions such as accepted gender norms which may force women into specific industries or …

owner's gender may have an impact on the business succession process and its outcome too. Based on one the largest German … strands by providing first insights into the impact of family businesses owner's gender on both business succession planning … that differences between women- and men-led businesses are not related to gender but to characteristics of the businesses …

women's employment in the United States through the lenses of both feminist economic theory and stratification economics. …

Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and … the strict boundaries of the market. The paper also makes this point: examined through the prism of gender equality, the … ability of the state to implement countercyclical policies matters greatly. If policy responses at the national and …

sophisticated methods of allocating people to jobs to model the impact of public investment in care on the gender employment gap and …This paper discusses new methods of combined macro-micro analysis of labor demand and supply to investigate the gender … industries, suggesting methodological refinements to take account of the labor supply effects of such investment policies in …

different sectors of employment. The results suggest that returns to schooling are higher for Turkey at the various levels of … to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for …

An important line of recent literature has found gender differences in attitudes toward competition, with men being …. This paper examines the effect of information on the gender gap in tournament entry. We present experimental evidence that … feedback before making their incentive scheme choice. The result suggests that policies that reduce uncertainty can reduce the …

on the impact of Chinese import competition on productivity, skills, and performance of firms., We measure import …-up and skills upgrading. Of particular interest is the finding that the effects of import competition from China are stronger … productivity of laggard firms, employment, and intensity of skilled workers. Our findings indicate that African firms are improving …