empirically investigate the dynamics and drivers of gender gaps in employment rates, wages and workhours during the pandemic …. Relying on Estonian Labour Force Survey data, we document that the pandemic has, if anything, reduced gender inequality in all … - rising as infections mounted and declining as the first wave flattened - overall, the pandemic did not exacerbate gender gaps …

particularly. Following this notion, we analyse the impact of the German minimum wage introduction in 2015 on the gender wage gap …. Germany poses an interesting case study in this context, since it has a rather high gender wage gap and set the minimum wage … minimum wage on the regional gender wage gap. Between 2014 and 2018, the gap at the 10th percentile of the wage distribution …

. Thus, this paper aims at estimating the effectiveness of the im- plemented wage floor on gender wage gaps in the lower half … successive minimum wage raises in 2017 and 2019. Counterfactual aggregate decompositions of gender wage gaps finally indicate a …

% more likely to experience income losses than their male counterparts. Conversely, we do not find a comparable gender gap … among employees. Our results further suggest that the gender gap among the self-employed is largely explained by the fact …

The gender income gap is large and well documented for many countries. Recent research shows that it is mainly driven … the gender income gap by redistributing between men and women. The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented levels … research investigates the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on the gender gap in income in Ireland. Using nowcasting techniques …

model with demographic and firm productivity heterogeneity. The model replicates observed gender gaps in employment, hours … penalty to address non-compliance. Based on our model, the minimum wage primarily reduces the gender income gap through the … gender wage gap. At its 2022 level, the German minimum wage reduces the gender employment and hours gap due to an upward …