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 …

disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …

There is considerable debate on whether the employment and earnings prospects are better for those on low pay or for …

We document that fluctuations in part-time employment play a major role in movements in hours per worker during … part-time employment. The evolution of part-time employment is predominantly explained by cyclical changes in transitions … between full-time and part-time employment. Those transitions occur overwhelmingly at the same employer, entail sizable …

employment by means of a regression discontinuity analysis. Because this threshold is known in advance, they investigate the … presence of discontinuities in both the level and the slope of employment probabilities at different ages around the threshold …. Their results indicate that turning 22 does not significantly change the employment probability. However, they find a …

systems unless there is an offsetting increase in employment rates. This is especially true for older workers whose employment …

destruction relative to their share of employment. This finding is robust to the definition of firm size used …

We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature …, we find a significant and negative employment effect for male workers at 21, which we believe to be an anticipation … effect on employment of young workers, with this effect possibly occurring already well in advance of reaching the threshold …