family policies on women's careers and children's wellbeing. There is to date little or no evidence of beneficial effects of …

Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women …, if women who are employed tend to have relatively high-wage characteristics, low female employment rates may become … consistent with low gender wage gaps simply because low-wage women would not feature in the observed wage distribution. We …

Women in Britain who work part-time have, on average, hourly earnings about 25% less than that of women working full … a sizeable part of the penalty can be explained by the differing characteristics pf FT and PT women. Inclusion of …