This paper investigates gender inequality in vulnerable employment: forms of employment typically featuring high … from developing countries, we measure long-term trends, describe geographical patterns, and estimate correlates of gender … gender gap. Across countries, the gender gap is smaller in richer countries, with lower fertility rates, and more …

-socialist European Union member states. In dialogue with the literature on the impact of economic development on gender inequality in …-liberal style "economic development" on gender inequality in a geo-politically specific context and suggest that structural …-level modeling techniques, this paper explores the macro-level determinants of the gender poverty gap in the ten post …

-headed microenterprises, particularly those with a higher baseline level of profits, to close the gender profit gap in performance and skills …

Occupational and sectoral segregation by gender is remarkably persistent across space and time and is a major … contributor to gender wage gaps. We investigate the determinants of one-digit occupational and sectoral segregation in developing …

the gender wage gap regardless of a country's development stage. While having more children widens the gender wage gap, as …This paper examines the factors influencing the gender wage gap by using an unbalanced crosscountry aggregated panel … participation by women seems to narrow the gender wage gap, probably due to the number of female labor market entrants taking up …

In this paper we analyse the impact of foreign aid on gender outcomes and attitudes. We do this by matching geocoded …

firms depending on their export status and the gender of their owners. We find that female-owned exporters have roughly half …

mathematics. In this paper, we document several features of their relative performance. First, we note that the gender gap appears … teacher gender) help explain a substantial portion of the gap. While none of these explanations help in explaining a large … portion of the gender gap, we show that boys and girls differ significantly in perceptions about their own ability in math …

Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay … gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on … developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends in the gender differences in wages and employment rates. We then …

Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay … gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on … developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends in the gender differences in wages and employment rates. We then …