This paper studies the effect of firms'export activity on the gender wage gap among its workers. Using matched employer …, which reinforces female comparative advantage and reduces (widens) the gender wage gap in white-collar (blue …

This paper looks at the gender wage gap throughout the transition from communism to capitalism and throughout a time of … participation for women. Although the regime was formally egalitarian, the gender attitudes were conservative and the raw gender … wage gap was as large as 41% at the end of the communist period in Estonia. The large gender wage gap under communist rule …

congestion policy, spatial planning and transport infrastructure provision, but are also relevant to our understanding of gender … differences in labour market biographies. For estimation, we use a stratified partial likelihood model on a large administrative …

document both the direct employment changes of individuals affected by trade exposure, as well as the employment response of … individuals whose partner is exposed to trade. We find substantial differences by gender. Men respond to import competition by … increasing labour force participation at older ages, and by moving into self-employment. This is true both in response to their …

at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with … gender outcomes. Most estimates of the impact of parental leave entitlement on female labor market outcomes range from …

1980. Over the period 1955-1980 an expansionary spending or revenue shock was associated with modestly higher stock prices …. After 1980, along with a decline in the fiscal multiplier, the response of stock prices to the same shock became negative …