migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double disadvantage. In both …

This paper investigates wage gaps between part- and full-time women workers in six OECD countries in the mid-1990s …-time workers. The paper finds a part-time wage penalty among women workers in all countries, except Sweden. Other than in Sweden …

There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely … 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 …

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 …

-age population. Japan has been characterized by the least favorable work setting for women, as exemplified by the discontinuous … pattern of work among mothers, the large extent of wage gap between men and women, and the very low proportion of women … married women's labor force participation. Second, I will examine mothers' working pattern, especially focusing on the …