market participation through gender lens. Results show that women’s education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work …

Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude … results suggest that a sizable improvement in gender attitudes would yield important gains for females, but substantial gains …

Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable, overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses … data on young workers in their early years in the labor market to understand how gender wage gaps evolve over time, if at … entrants begin with little or no gender differences in earnings, but a wage gap gradually emerges over time closer to the …

We develop a two sector competitive equilibrium model that rationalizes the gender pay gap by the coexistence of two … on their physical endowments. We prove the existence of a competitive equilibrium where the gender pay gap arises. The … an ineffective way to reduce the gender pay gap …

Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and … changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality …

We explore the relationship between sibling sex composition, gender inequality and girls' locus of control. Among girls …

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. …