by women with household responsibilities, some members of parliament believed that the new hours may be "family friendly …", i.e. convenient for combining career and household activities, and increase female labor participation. The policy … could be argued that the policy did, indirectly, have a positive impact on gender equality in the labor market and, possibly …

research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …

and household setting. Our empirical analysis is based on Dutch administrative monthly microdata over the period 2006 … trade off job flexibilities to longer job search without widening the gender pay gap. Also, we show that women who are … pregnant when job loss occurs experience large losses in employment and conditional on re-employment take up a highly flexible …

bottom of earnings distribution, it may have the side-effect of worsening their employment prospects. A demand …-and-supply interpretation of data on the relative employment rate and earnings position of the least educated in the EU27 suggests that the …

bottom of earnings distribution, it may have the side-effect of worsening their employment prospects. A demand …-and-supply interpretation of data on the relative employment rate and earnings position of the least educated in the EU27 suggests that the … ; employment ; earnings dispersion ; demand and supply of labour ; wage and employment discrimination …

This paper defines informal sector employment and decomposes the difference in earnings between formal and informal … and considering self-selection of individuals into different employment types, we find a significant informal employment …

This paper examines the effects of collectively agreed increases in real minimum wages on employment transitions and … relatively fewer hours before being separated. Among the young, however, both employment and hours are negatively affected …. Labour-labour substitution seems to be important, since increases in minimum wages promote employment among workers with …

. The present paper examines the veracity of this by examining the trends in employment and earnings in this sector over the … nineties and analysing the factors affecting them. Most of the employment expansion has been in the unorganised sector where … wages have stagnated. Though real wages in the factories have declined employment therein has not increased. Interestingly …

This paper develops a dynamic model of the labor market in which the degree of substitution between employment and … work, and defines the trade-off between employment and hours of work. Concave production technology induces firms to …

; employment ; wage setting ; labour force participation ; labour market dynamics ; unemployment persistence ; imperfect …