how this income dynamic affects mental health. Using data on all Swedish couples who married in 2001, I show that mental … health is positively associated with own and spousal income. However, it is negatively linked to the wife's relative income … cent. This effect does not appear driven by divorce or spouses being on different income trajectories. …

Men's additional income from their guest-worker employment generates a pure income effect, which increases fertility … work abroad during the same time period when they can bear children, their additional income generates a substitution … when they bear children, their additional income generates the income effect on fertility, which is not different from that …

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

This paper explores the evolution of Brazilian wage gaps by gender and skin color over a decade (1996-2006), using the … along the gender divide, although both noticeably decreased over the course of the last decade. The decomposition results … racial wage gaps, observable human capital characteristics account for most of the observed wage gaps, the observed gender …

to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for …

. Neuroticism explains the within-gender variance in individual risk-taking among women, who are on average more risk-averse than …