and child-rearing - a critical omission when analyzing gender differences in earnings. This paper constructs a better … can be generated using commonly available data on labor force participation rates by age and gender to gauge the … underestimate the contribution of gender differences in work experience in explaining the gender wage gap. …

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 …

This paper sets out to analyze gender behavior in the Brazilian labor market as a result of the economic effects of the …

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 …

's impact on the labor market. Another notable finding is the central role of telecommuting: gender gaps in the employment … telecommuters a different kind of gender gap arises: women working from home during the pandemic spent more work time also doing … childcare and experienced greater productivity reductions than men. We discuss what our findings imply for gender equality in a …

crisis appears to have increased gender inequalities in both paid and unpaid work in the short-term. …

Using a nationally representative large-scale survey of individual ICT skills in India (Multiple Indicators Survey … instrumental variables (IV) strategy. The IV approach exploits the dramatic expansion of cell towers in India as a source of supply … effects vary substantially across gender: women face a penalty in the form of a lower impact on salaried employment, but the …

Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries …. This paper uses a unique data set with more than 20,000 adolescents in rural India to examine whether socioeconomic status … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude …

This study on the economics of gender differences examines whether the mining industry acts as a blessing or curse for … on various measures of women's agency and health in India. Identification leverages the plausibly exogenous spatial …

effects on male and female workers in India. It describes trends in employment shares and wages for female and male workers …