different aspects of gender equality or female empowerment. Whereas the economics of income inequality has been an area of … active academic inquiry, the role of gender equality has largely been ignored. Are there positive spillovers from gender … the affirmative. Specifically, nations with a history of women’s suffrage, greater representation of women in the …

is completely free of gender-based norms. Salaries are assigned through a points system that considers training level … the gender-related gaps existing in other, more arbitrary private work environments. In this article, we present the … unadjusted gender pay gap of 0.12 and adjusted or unexplained gaps of 0.07-0.09 obtained through a Mincer earnings regression and …

source of income inequality between men and women. Motherhood explains 42% of the remaining gender gap and has progressively …We assess whether motherhood could be the last hurdle to achieving gender equality in developing countries by exploring … the link between motherhood and the overall gender gap in the labor market for 14 Latin American countries over the last …

determined by personal circumstances that lie beyond the control of an individual, of which gender is one, as opposed to the … component determined by personal efforts. Using the Survey of Women's Social Status in China (2010), we measure the share of … six birth cohorts and for female and male subsamples. Gender is revealed as the single most important circumstance …

measures like the gender wage gap. …

the gender gap in annual earnings is largely driven by women's lower work experience and intensive margin of labor supply … counterfactual analysis we find that the adjusted gender lifetime earnings gap of 10 percent differs only slightly by women's family …To obtain a more complete understanding of the persisting gender earnings gap in Germany, this paper investigates both …

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …

the gender gap in annual earnings is largely driven by women’s lower work experience and intensive margin of labor supply … counterfactual analysis we find that the adjusted gender lifetime earnings gap of 10 percent differs only slightly by women’s family …To obtain a more complete understanding of the persisting gender earnings gap in Germany, this paper investigates both …

child on gender inequality from the perspectives of labor market outcomes and its mechanisms. Results show that becoming a … work in the formal sector. Moreover, social norms towards gender roles lead mothers to devote more time to housework and …

significantly contributes to the gender pay gap. Lastly, we show that women experience a greater decline in earnings if their … to examine the effects of losing a parent on individual labor market outcomes and its contribution to gender earnings …. Exploring the underlying mechanisms, we observe that both women and men experience increased mental health issues after parental …