may lead to higher promotion standards for women. If employers expect women to do more household work than men, thereby … exerting less effort in their paid job, then women must be more talented to make promotion profitable. Moreover, specialization … in the family will then result in women’s doing most of the household work. Such self-fulfilling prophecies can be …

This article investigates women's economic, political, and social rights in both home and destination countries as … women's economic and social rights at home improve, they are less likely to leave, but women's political rights are a push … factor. Women's economic rights in destination countries attract female migrants of all education levels but more so those …

We develop a model to study the impact on gender gaps in participation and wages of a liquidity constraint that … gender gaps in the labour market. In this framework, an extension of paid maternity leave duration has ambiguous effects on … gender inequality. In contrast, child care subsidies, which require higher taxes, and loans, which do not, unambiguously …

contributes to persistent gender gaps in labour market performance is women’s traditional role in the household. Child …A large body of empirical evidence documents the gender variation in labour market outcomes. A major factor that …-related absences from work imply that women accumulate less job experience, are more prone to career discontinuities and, hence, suffer …

We investigate the importance of employer preferences in explaining Sticky Floors, the pattern that women are, compared … labour market and test whether hiring discrimination based on gender is heterogeneous by the promotion characteristics of the … selected jobs. We find that women get 33% less interview invitations when they apply for jobs implying a first promotion in …

be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and … preparation to emigrate from 150 countries between 2009-2013 and disentangle how perceived gender discrimination can foster or … to both sample selection bias and potential endogeneity issues. Perceived gender discrimination is shown to form a strong …

This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages …, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and … openness on the gender wage gap remained observable in later years (1980, 1990 and 2000), although it decreased in degree over …

We develop a two sector competitive equilibrium model that rationalizes the gender pay gap by the coexistence of two … mechanisms: a statistical discrimination mechanism linked to a stereotype belief in which women engage in child …-rearing activities while men do not and a self-selection mechanism that makes men and women choose differently among unskilled jobs based …