common metric is tricky. Here we propose doing so through the notion of temporal autonomy: the freedom to spend one's time as …, Germany, France, and Sweden) that represent the principal types of welfare and gender regimes, we propose ways of … call discretionary time - represents people's temporal autonomy. We measure the impact on this of government taxes …

results show that India, the country with the greatest physical labor requirements, exhibits the largest labor market gender … labor demand requirements in four developing countries: Brazil, Mexico, India and Thailand. The results highlight the … importance of structural change in reducing gender disparities by decreasing the labor demand for physical attributes. The …

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 …