shifter in mothers' quits, we use a policy reform that extended the potential duration of unemployment benefits, which Italian …

This study investigates on Pakistani and South African data gender issues in household behavior.A test for gender bias …

the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …

The impact of economic growth on unemployment is commonly agreed and extensively studied. However, how age and gender … apply Okun's law, aiming to estimate age-, gender- and educational attainment level-specific unemployment rate sensitivity … output change on the unemployment rate, supporting higher effects of recessions than that of expansions, we aim to enrich …

In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was … compensation during the first 20 weeks of unemployment. The 2002 reform retained the two-tiered benefit structure but involved also … unemployment to employment. We take advantage of the fact that the reforms had quasi-experimental features where the "treatments …

approach with respect to gender and ethnicity. To analyze unemployment duration comprehensively, dynamic duration time models … unemployment duration in Germany. Due to substantial differences with respect to labour market outcomes we follow a stratified … are used in which covariate effects are allowed to vary smoothly with unemployment duration and others enter the model in …

This study examines the gender gap in wages of young adults in the late 1970s, mid 1980s, and 2000, in the middle and …, but it is less so for the two minority groups. We confirm significant gender disparities in wages favoring men across … three surveys in the 1970s, 1980s, and 2000 that are unaccounted for. While the unexplained gender gap is evident across the …

gender of the job loser. Finally, we document that parenthood magnifies the gender gap sharply: while fathers of young …