Labor markets in the UK have been characterized by markedly widening wage inequality for lowskill (non-college) women …-2019. For recent generations of women, cohort effects indicate a higher likelihood of employment in low-paying manual jobs … low-skill women born in 1990 relative to those born in 1970 …

Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it … entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in …

Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it … entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in …

This paper provides a clear and transparent setting to study the effect of additional pension benefits on women … contribution, which led to sharply different slopes of benefits for similar women to the left and to the right of the kink point … subsidy program can account for one third of the increase in women's age of claiming pension over the past decade …

market participation through gender lens. Results show that women's education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work … therefore suggest that, women need to be educated above secondary level to become visible in the labour market …