In recent decades, women's participation in the labor market has increased considerably in most countries and is … be occurring in the criminal world, though many more men than women still engage in criminal activity. Technological … progress and social norms have freed women from the home, increasing their participation in both the labor market and the crime …

The four essays collected in this volume aim is to shed some light on specific aspect in which women are discriminated … using a very large and representative dataset. Chapter three investigates how the increased return on investment on women in …