by 10.6 percentage points, whereas closing the gender gaps between men and women would lead to an increase of 2 …This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and ….5 percentage points. At the same time, closing both the gender and education gaps would raise the EU employment rate from 76% to 89 …

Austrian tax-benet system, however, reduces this gender dierences. Disposable income has dropped by around 1% for both males …

Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in … regression results show that even after accounting for human capital endowments, women are systematically less likely to … participate in paid work than men. Oaxaca decomposition of the gender gap confirms that most of it (i.e. 95%) is unexplained by …

Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in … regression results show that even after accounting for human capital endowments, women are systematically less likely to … participate in paid work than men. Oaxaca decomposition of the gender gap confirms that most of it (i.e. 95%) is unexplained by …

What are the effects on the labor market and aggregate income of frictions that restrict women's labor decisions that … impede labor participation and composition being equal between men and women? To answer this question, I develop an … occupational general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents facing gender-based restrictions in labor participation and job …

This paper provides an overview of what has happened over the past fifty years for women as they worked to break … through professional barriers in economics, policy, and institutional leadership. We chart the progress of women in higher … education at the college level and beyond and then go on to examine women's representation at the upper levels of academia …

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 …-time workers and that the part-time penalty is much more pronounced for men than for women, even when comparing applicants for the …

This study investigates the factors that underlay the low labour force participation rate among Palestinian-Arab women … in Israel relative to Jewish women despite the high educational attainment among this group. We focus on four factors … retirement of Arab women from the labour market. We find that all four of these factors affect the probability of Palestinian …

overconfidence combined with competitive workplace incentives affects gender equality in the labor market. Our main result is that …