In the last decades the US economy experienced a rise in female labor force participation, a reversal of the gender … education gap and a closing of the gender wage gap. Importantly, these changes occurred at a substantially different pace over …. Given the observed US technical change process, the model replicates (1) over half of the narrowing gender wage gap, (2 …

Social policy debates as early as the 1950s have focused on the activation of individuals into employment.. This … gender pay gap; and has often resulted in the weakening of traditional social protection. We study the individual poverty … gender pay gap. Benefits cushion some of the gendered labour market dierences but are often not generous enough for …

We investigate the causes of the gender disparity in labour market participation in Ethiopia using iterative …