This paper compares employment restructuring, gender, and occupational change in Japan, Sweden, the UK, and the USA …-economic skill regimes and cultural ideologies of gender on occupational sex segregation. In each country, the shift towards services …, liberalized labor market policies of the UK. In conclusion, it is argued that gender and markets are mutually constitutive; their …

Analyzing gender gaps of unemployed job-seekers, this study uniquely complements the broad literature focussing … predominantly on gender gaps of employed workers. I consider a broad range of labor market outcomes, and disentangle the factors … importance. Married women and those with young children perform particularly bad compared to men. High unexplainable gender gaps …

whether this depends on the gender of a jobseeker. First, I relate the number of hours stated on job advertisements to the … gender preferences of firms indicated in a confidential online form. Second, I analyze hiring decisions of recruiters who … same position. Hence, the gender differences cannot be explained by differences in job or workplace characteristics …