empirically investigate the dynamics and drivers of gender gaps in employment rates, wages and workhours during the pandemic …. Relying on Estonian Labour Force Survey data, we document that the pandemic has, if anything, reduced gender inequality in all … - rising as infections mounted and declining as the first wave flattened - overall, the pandemic did not exacerbate gender gaps …

. We will revisit key stylized facts about gender gaps in employment and wages in a few high-income countries. We then …In this paper we discuss some strands of the recent literature on the evolution of gender gaps and their driving forces … discuss and build on one gender-neutral force behind the rise in female employment, namely the rise of the service economy …

that up to 80% of the gender gap in hourly wages may be due to the lower returns that women receive, relative to men, on … labor market, according to gender, across four Latin American countries. We find that information and communication … for both men and women. However, there is a significant gender gap that favors men on the STEM returns. There is also a …

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 …-collar) occupations. Our results, identified out of the variation in wages within firm-worker pairs, are robust to controlling for a …

congestion policy, spatial planning and transport infrastructure provision, but are also relevant to our understanding of gender … dataset for West Germany to flexibly account for both unobserved individual heterogeneity and changes dependent on wages and … women's over a large range of wages. However, women's marginal willingness to pay more than doubles after the birth of a …

We investigate differences in earnings penalties associated with working from home (WFH) between groups of gender and …

The comovement between gender gaps in hours and wages across countries and skills reveals the presence of net demand … forces shaping gender differences in labor market outcomes. This paper links the rich pattern of variation in gender gaps to … gender bias in labor demand can be decomposed into measurable within- and between-industry components. Using comparable micro …

Women in developed economies have made major inroads in labor markets throughout the past century, but remaining gender … hours and relative wages for a wide cross-section of developed economies. It reviews existing work on the factors driving … gender convergence, and novel perspectives on remaining gender gaps. The paper finally emphasizes the interplay between …

how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We …

This paper presents evidence of the effects of gender diversity on firm innovation outcomes and their productivity in … endogeneity issues of women’s participation in STI and innovation behavior. An upward bias of the impact of gender diversity on … innovation might arise because more dynamic and innovative managers, knowing the value of gender diversity, may also hire more …