Women's rising labor force participation since the 1960's was long seen as heralding decreasing gender inequalities …. According to influential social science writings this view has now to be revised; 'women friendly' policies bringing women into … the workforce are held to create major inequality tradeoffs between quantity and quality in women's jobs. Unintendedly …

to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare … for welfare usage among comparable women. In addition, we do not find any significant differences in welfare usage among …

Recent rapid economic growth in Ireland has been accompanied by a strong surge in the number of women in employment …

migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double disadvantage. In both … differential, although human capital endowments play a relevant role, both the unexplained earnings penalty associated with gender …

how women could be more successfully motivated to become self-employed in the crafts. First of all, traditional gender …. Entrepreneurship consulting should incorporate gender typical concerns and cater to the specific informational requirements of women … tendency of women to start businesses in the service sector, which is underrepresented in the crafts. Women also tend to be …