intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes and norms as determinants of women's labour force participation in industrialized … brief case study of women's labour force participation in India, where the direct link between gender attitudes and women …Women have historically been overlooked in research on social mobility. In contrast, new research focuses on the …

In many countries, a significant share of the gender earnings gap stems not only from firm's practices, or self …-selection into lower productivity jobs, but also from a lower participation among women. Inactivity around the age of motherhood is … market, as well as future earnings and promotions. In this paper, we discuss the major barriers reducing women's labor force …

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 …

With only 32% of active age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper middle-income country with one of the … was partly explained by the drastic increases in the school attainment of women, the reduction in fertility and the … show that social norms, attitudes towards women in the society and public policies are important determinants of these …

mobility. This limits women’s labor market opportunities and the pool of workers that firms, can attract. In this study, we …, women, and the differential impact of, transport exclusively for women. We show that reducing physical mobility constraints … has a large, impact on job searching for women, including women who are not searching at baseline. Women’s, response is …

women from working overtime exceeding two hours a day; six hours a week; and 150 hours a year. The 1985 amendments exempted … a variety of occupations and industries from such overtime restriction on women. We first define "jobs" using an … exempt from the overtime restriction on women by the 1985 amendments. Applying a difference-in-difference model to census …

Tanzania. Our findings indicate that, compared to men, women are less likely to participate in the labour market and less … likely to get formal wage employment, suggesting the existence of gender bias in the labour market in urban areas of Tanzania …. However, after accounting for selection into labour force participation, the existing gender bias is narrowed for women with …

We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender gap has … conditional employment probabilities of married women, as compared with men, is the other factor. These findings point at …