explores the sectoral reallocation of labour by gender. In Bulgaria, men and women started the transition on an almost equal … gender differences in the labour market. We find that household characteristics, rather than alternative explanations such as …With the use of panel data constructed from the 1995 and 1997 Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys, this paper …

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 …

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 …